UNITED NATIONS : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon today called upon the international community to mobilise all resources and political will and help the capacity-building of countries affected by extremism and terrorism. “It’s important… most important at this time how the international community must mobilize all resources and political will and help the capacity-building of those countries affected to address this extremism and terrorism,” the Secretary General said in his year-end press conference here.
Describing as ‘totally unacceptable’ the killing of innocent school children at Peshawar in Pakistan, he said the international community had been troubled by all this spread of terrorism and extremism, here and there. “What we have seen, what happened in Pakistan, is totally unacceptable. That is why I have condemned it in the strongest of possible terms,” he said.
He said there had been many terrorist incidents elsewhere too in the world including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Somalia among others.
He said the United Nations had established a Counter-Terrorism Centre under the Department of Political Affairs and was actively engaging with the countries in danger, vulnerable to terrorism and extremism.
He said the UN would try to help countries to strengthen their national capacity and had been in contact with Nigerian government to organise capacity-building workshop in January, next year.
He said he would also consider what could be done to help Pakistan and other countries cope with terror. (AGENCIES)
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