‘Terrorism needs to be addressed through solidarity and unity’: India’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ruchira Kamboj
India raised the profile of the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) as the chair of this committee, said Permanent Ambassador to United Nations Ruchira Kamboj on Wednesday, as she summed up New Delhi's tenure at the UN high table.To a question about India's focus on fighting terrorism under its UNSC tenure, ambassador Kamboj told that "right at the beginning of our tenure in Jan 2021, External Affairs Minister (S Jaishankar) had presented an eight-point action plan of UN system to credibly address the menace of terrorism and ensure effective action". "As the chair of the counter-terrorism committee, we raised the profile of this committee," she added. India hosted a special meeting of the UN Security Council's CTC in October to discuss terror financing through crypto-currency and the use of drones in the new-age terrorism. On October 29, the CTC unanimously adopted the Delhi Declaration on countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes.