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India says blaming non-state actors for terror no excuse
Thimphu (PPI) - India on Saturday said that no country can escape its responsibility by blaming non-state actors for terrorist activities emanating from its soil. As long as territory of a country is used by non-state actors to prepare for terror attacks, that country owes a legal and moral responsibility to its neighbours and to the world to suppress those non-state actors and bring them to justice, Home Minister P Chidambaram said, according to Press Trust of India PTI.
“Sometimes, I think that distinction between state actors and non-state actors is misplaced and intended to misdirect our efforts to deal with terrorist groups at the very source - recruitment centres, training camps, their safe havens and sanctuaries,” he said addressing 4th meeting of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAARC Interior, Home ministers in Thimphu, capital of Bhutan.
Describing terrorism as biggest existentialist challenge in South Asia, Chidambaram said the menace in the region can be best tackled through effective cooperation among SAARC nations. “We have no alternative but to deploy the best instruments and resources at our disposal in our fight against terrorism.”
He stressed need for examining existing mechanisms for countering terrorism, drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings, arms smuggling and counterfeiting. “South Asia was perhaps most troubled and vulnerable region in the world as the vast majority of terrorist incidents this year - as well as last year - occurred there. Terrorist groups in this region have flourished because of the support they have found from state and non-state actors,” he contended.
“The lives and safety of our people continue to remain at significant risk from targeted, deliberate and cowardly terrorist outrages,” he said. He said process of taking forward a proactive agenda on cooperation in our neighbourhood was integrally connected with shared ability to cooperate in eliminating threats posed by terrorists, drug traffickers, arms smugglers and others whose activities affect safety and security of our people.
“We have no alternative but to deploy best instruments, resources at our disposal in our fight against terrorism. What we need now is to be more proactive in implementing our resolutions in letter and spirit.” For instance, much more can be done by sharing information on real-time basis on terrorism and all forms of organized criminal activity.
On existing Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, signed three years ago at 15th SAARC Summit, Chidambaram said if SAARC acts on provisions of Convention, it will facilitate evidence-sharing, seizure, confiscation of criminal and terrorist funds. “Proposed UN Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism is long overdue. As a region with highest incidence of terror, we need to press for such a Convention soon.”
“Sometimes, I think that distinction between state actors and non-state actors is misplaced and intended to misdirect our efforts to deal with terrorist groups at the very source - recruitment centres, training camps, their safe havens and sanctuaries,” he said addressing 4th meeting of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAARC Interior, Home ministers in Thimphu, capital of Bhutan.
Describing terrorism as biggest existentialist challenge in South Asia, Chidambaram said the menace in the region can be best tackled through effective cooperation among SAARC nations. “We have no alternative but to deploy the best instruments and resources at our disposal in our fight against terrorism.”
He stressed need for examining existing mechanisms for countering terrorism, drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings, arms smuggling and counterfeiting. “South Asia was perhaps most troubled and vulnerable region in the world as the vast majority of terrorist incidents this year - as well as last year - occurred there. Terrorist groups in this region have flourished because of the support they have found from state and non-state actors,” he contended.
“The lives and safety of our people continue to remain at significant risk from targeted, deliberate and cowardly terrorist outrages,” he said. He said process of taking forward a proactive agenda on cooperation in our neighbourhood was integrally connected with shared ability to cooperate in eliminating threats posed by terrorists, drug traffickers, arms smugglers and others whose activities affect safety and security of our people.
“We have no alternative but to deploy best instruments, resources at our disposal in our fight against terrorism. What we need now is to be more proactive in implementing our resolutions in letter and spirit.” For instance, much more can be done by sharing information on real-time basis on terrorism and all forms of organized criminal activity.
On existing Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, signed three years ago at 15th SAARC Summit, Chidambaram said if SAARC acts on provisions of Convention, it will facilitate evidence-sharing, seizure, confiscation of criminal and terrorist funds. “Proposed UN Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism is long overdue. As a region with highest incidence of terror, we need to press for such a Convention soon.”
