It was announced by Minister of External Affairs during UN Security Council’s Counter Terrorism Committee meeting, held in 2022 under India’s presidency.
- India’s contribution would support UNOCT’s global programmes mainly Countering Financing of Terrorism (CFT) and Countering Terrorist Travel Programme (CTTP).
- CFT aims at strengthening capacity of member-states to understand risks of terrorism.
- CTTP assists beneficiary Member States in building capabilities to detect and counter-terrorists.
Challenges in Addressing Terrorism
- Lack of universally accepted definition of terrorism.
- Difficulty in tracing terror funding due to use of virtual currencies like Bitcoin.
- Difficulty in countering Lone-wolf attacks as these attackers often don’t share their plans.
Measures taken to Counter- Terrorism
Global
- UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy to enhance national, regional and international efforts to counter-terrorism.
- Regional Anti-terrorist Structure of Shanghai Cooperation Organization for fighting terrorism, separatism and extremism.
- Financial Action Task Force (FATF), global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog.
- India is member of FATF.
India
- Financial Intelligence Unit – India for strengthening efforts against money laundering and financing of terrorism.
- National Investigation Agency, Central Counter Terrorism Law Enforcement Agency.
United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT)
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