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On October 28-29, India will host UN Security Council ambassadors and other member nations for a crucial meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Committee in Maharashtra and New Delhi. For 2022, India will be the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Chair. During a news conference in New York on Saturday, India’s Permanent Representative to UN, Ruchira Kamboj, said that UN CTC parties would pay tribute to people of the dreadful 26/11 terrorist Mumbai attacks.
She also stated that the UNSC CTC would hold a special meeting on “Countering the Utilization of New and Innovative Technologies for Terrorist Purposes” on October 28 and 29 in New Delhi.
Key Takeaways
- According to the Chairman Of the committee, Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, the necessary UN Security (CTC) Council Counter-Terrorism Committee meeting in Mumbai, this month will be a “tribute as well as the statement” to a horrific 26/11 terrorism attacks.
- And members of the influential UN body will lay a wreath in honour of the victims.
- India is hosting diplomats from the 15-nation UN body and other member states for a unique Mumbai and New Delhi conference on October 28–29 to focus on emerging technologies.
- India now serves as the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee’s Chair for 2022.
- The action was taken in response to the rising danger posed by the misapplication of new and developing technology.
- The CTC had its most recent special meeting outside the UN’s main office in July 2015 in Madrid, Spain, focusing on foreign terrorist combatants.
About the Meeting
New and developing technologies will be the main topic of discussion at this particular meeting. India presently chairs the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee till 2022. In her position as Chairman of a Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee, Ruchira Kamboj, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, informed reporters that this meeting will serve as a memorial and statement to the awful 26/11 terror acts.
The United Nations Security Council members will lay a wreath to honour the assault victims. More than 160 individuals were killed in the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror strikes in 2008 in Mumbai.
A report is anticipated following the Counter-Terrorism Committee’s special meeting, according to Ms. Kamboj. In December of this year, India’s two years as an appointed non-permanent membership of the 15-nation United Nations Security Council will end.
In December, India will also serve as the critical UN body’s president. Along with the five permanent members, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the Security Council now includes Albania, India, Ireland, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates.
Highlights of the Meeting
- In October, India will host diplomats from the 15-member Security Council, including the United States, China, and Russia, for a special Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee meeting.
- India will preside over the committee till 2022.
- The Security Council now contains Brazil, Albania, Ghana, Gabon, India, Kenya, Ireland, Nigeria, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates, and the five-member nations France, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- The UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), according to the material on the Committee’s website, has agreed to host a special meeting on this issue in India on October 29, 2022, with the support of its Executive Directorate.
- The action was taken in response to the rising danger posed by the misapplication of new and developing technology.
- The Counter-Terrorism Committee doesn’t meet regularly outside New York, but this will be the fifth such gathering. The CTC had its latest special meeting from outside the UN headquarters in Madrid, Spain, in July 2015, emphasizing foreign terrorist combatants (FTFs).
Ruchira Kamboj discusses the crucial meeting
According to Kamboj, who also added that “terror poses the most significant danger to the world community,” “members of UN Counter-terror committee would pay tribute to survivors of the 26/11 jihadist attacks in Mumbai”. She said that the session of the UN Counter-Terrorists Committee will emphasize the fast development of crucial terrorist technologies: unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), financing for terrorism, and social media and the Internet.
The gathering will also provide participants the chance to examine existing and growing hazards, how new emerging technologies are being utilised to counteract such threats, ongoing concerns, best practices, and a range of pertinent gender and human rights issues.
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It will provide people the chance to talk about current and developing risks, current and evolving risks, the use of emerging and new technologies to combat such threats, ongoing problems and best practices, and a variety of relevant human rights, including gender issues.
The application of emerging and new technologies to counter-terrorism is an issue that is gaining traction among member states, policymakers, and researchers, especially in the context of the rising role played by new tech in terrorism and counter-terrorism as a result of the pervasiveness of rapid technology rise in digitization. “The Security Council has addressed this in several resolutions about counterterrorism, most notably resolution 2617 of 2021, which specifically highlighted “emerging technology.”
The UN Committee had decided to host a Special Meeting here on the issue, with its (CTED) cooperation, in light of the growing threat presented by the abuse of new and developing technologies, it added. The (CTC) does not frequently convene outside New York, but this conference in India will mark this eighth instance. The CTC had its most recent special meeting outside the UN’s main office in July 2015 in Madrid, Spain, focusing on foreign terrorist combatants.
