India to push for global counter-terrorism convention at UN
September 17th, 2011 - 8:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be visiting New York next week to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session, when India will push for a comprehensive global convention to fight international terror.
India will also press for all member-states to fully comply with their counter-terrorism obligations, committed by them through several resolutions.
Manmohan Singh will be at the UN from Sep 22 to 26 when he will meet other world leaders during for bilateral engagements both at formal and informal setting, though India is yet to finalise his interactions, including with China.
Despite warm personal chemistry between them, the prime minister would not be meeting President Barack Obama, who would have left New York by then, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai told reporters here Saturday.
However, India and China would meeting at multilateral forum such as the BRICS, the top diplomat said.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has reportedly cancelled his visit to the UNGA meet and the nation will be represented by its Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar.
India will also support a resolution on Palestinian statehood at the UN Security Council (UNSC), apart from supporting the credentials of the National Transitional Council of Libya to represent that country in the UNGA.
India currently heads the UNSC committee on counter-terrorism, set up after the 9/11 attacks a decade ago, where the counter-terrorism convention will be pushed, Mathai said.
“The recent terrorist attack in New Delhi once again served as a reminder of the constant threat posed by terrorism to the security of democratic societies and wellbeing of its citizens.”
“We are currently chairing the UNSC committee on counter-terrorism established by its resolution adopted in the wake of Sep 11, 2001, terror attacks,” he said, noting that India was organising a special meeting of the committee on Sep 28, which is the 10th anniversary of the resolution.
“We will reiterate the need for strong international cooperation and collective action against terrorism. We have time and again insisted on full compliance by all states of their obligations under various UN resolutions and mechanisms on counter-terrorism,” Mathai said.
“We will also push for an early adoption of the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) that will provide a global framework against terrorism,” he added.
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