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May 2011
India asks world to target terror sanctuaries

Underlining its commitment to the reconstruction of Afghanistan, India on
June 6 asked the international community
to act against the continued
existence of “safe sanctuaries” for terrorists outside
its borders and warned against adopting a “selective
approach” to tackle this menace.
“Past experience has shown, however, that no
country, however distant, can stay immune from the
challenge posed by terrorist groups and the safe havens
that they enjoy,” External Affairs Minister S.M.
Krishna told his counterparts from 46 countries at the
10th foreign ministers’ meeting of the Asia-Europe
(ASEM) forum in the Hungarian town Gödödllo.
“Past experience has shown, however, that no
country, however distant, can stay immune from the
challenge posed by terrorist groups and the safe havens
that they enjoy,” External Affairs Minister S.M.
Krishna told his counterparts from 46 countries at the
10th foreign ministers’ meeting of the Asia-Europe
(ASEM) forum in the Hungarian town Gödödllo.
Terrorism is a truly trans-national menace.
Recruiting, planning, financing and training for
terror operations can all be done outside the borders
of the country which is attacked. Sanctuaries for
terror infrastructure outside of our national borders
are a continuing concern. Political expediency,
short-term gains, geo-political considerations, faulty
analyses, etc. blur clarity on how to address the
menace of international terrorism. All terror is
unacceptable and has to be tackled comprehensively.
A selective approach will not work. Over the past
couple of years, we have seen greater understanding
amongst the members of the international community
that segmented approaches to the problem of
terrorism have not worked; nor has the approach
of differentiating between lesser and greater evils
in this context.
There has to be an international collaboration in
the sharing of information, countering the financing
of terrorism, building capacity in our anti-terror
mechanisms, exchange of best practices and strengthening
our mutual legal assistance and extradition
regimes. We piloted the Comprehensive Convention
on International Terrorism at the UN because we
were convinced that existing sectoral conventions left
wide gaps in the global anti-terror legal framework.
We urge early adoption of this overdue Convention.
India is party to all the existing international
Conventions on Terrorism. In 2010, we became
members of the Financial Action Task Force, the
world’s premier inter-governmental organisation to
monitor standards in anti-money laundering and
counter-financing of terrorism. We co-chair the Asia
Pacific Group, a FATF styled regional body, for the
period 2010-2012 and will be hosting its plenary in
Kochi in July 2011. We are fully committed to implementing
the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
of 2006. We are happy to have assumed chairmanship
of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee (also
known as the 1373 Committee) in January 2011.
India has deep concerns about the nexus between
fundamentalism, terrorism and weapons of mass
destruction. The maritime security environment in
the Indian Ocean region continues to be fragile.
Non-state threats to maritime security are also on
the rise from piracy, smuggling, international terrorism,
transnational crimes, drug-trafficking, maritime
security and proliferation of sensitive items.
India has deep concerns about the nexus between
fundamentalism, terrorism and weapons of mass
destruction. The maritime security environment in
the Indian Ocean region continues to be fragile.
Non-state threats to maritime security are also on
the rise from piracy, smuggling, international terrorism,
transnational crimes, drug-trafficking, maritime
security and proliferation of sensitive items.
India has deep concerns about the nexus between
fundamentalism, terrorism and weapons of mass
destruction. The maritime security environment in
the Indian Ocean region continues to be fragile.
Non-state threats to maritime security are also on
the rise from piracy, smuggling, international terrorism,
transnational crimes, drug-trafficking, maritime
security and proliferation of sensitive items.
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India asks diaspora to become partners in progress

Calling the Indian diaspora its
bridge of friendship to the
world, India has invited the
Indo-Canadian community to become
a part of its success story.
The two-day event that started in
Toronto on June 9 was aptly given the
theme of ‘Building Bridges:
Positioning Strategies for the Indian
Diaspora’.
Speaking at the opening of the fifth
regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas,
Preneet Kaur, India’s Minister of State
for External Affairs, said the Indian
diaspora had become “an important
partner for India’s prosperity’’ by sending
remittances back home, making
investments, transferring technical
know-how, and projecting India’s soft
power by popularising its culture, films
and dance.
Speaking at the opening of the fifth
regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas,
Preneet Kaur, India’s Minister of State
for External Affairs, said the Indian
diaspora had become “an important
partner for India’s prosperity’’ by sending
remittances back home, making
investments, transferring technical
know-how, and projecting India’s soft
power by popularising its culture, films
and dance.
Speaking at the opening of the fifth
regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas,
Preneet Kaur, India’s Minister of State
for External Affairs, said the Indian
diaspora had become “an important
partner for India’s prosperity’’ by sending
remittances back home, making
investments, transferring technical
know-how, and projecting India’s soft
power by popularising its culture, films
and dance.
Speaking at the opening of the fifth
regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas,
Preneet Kaur, India’s Minister of State
for External Affairs, said the Indian
diaspora had become “an important
partner for India’s prosperity’’ by sending
remittances back home, making
investments, transferring technical
know-how, and projecting India’s soft
power by popularising its culture, films
and dance.
Speaking at the opening of the fifth
regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas,
Preneet Kaur, India’s Minister of State
for External Affairs, said the Indian
diaspora had become “an important
partner for India’s prosperity’’ by sending
remittances back home, making
investments, transferring technical
know-how, and projecting India’s soft
power by popularising its culture, films
and dance.
Speaking at the opening of the fifth
regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas,
Preneet Kaur, India’s Minister of State
for External Affairs, said the Indian
diaspora had become “an important
partner for India’s prosperity’’ by sending
remittances back home, making
investments, transferring technical
know-how, and projecting India’s soft
power by popularising its culture, films
and dance.
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