At a high-level UN General Assembly thematic debate on peace and security, Indian representative has censured world community for its “disaggregated” counter terrorism structure. For quite some time India has been emphasizing that the type of terrorism unleashed in different parts of the world today is a completely different phenomenon from the conventional terrorism and insurgency known to us through the medium of intentional study and research. India has been laying stress for global comprehensive structure for facing the challenge of religion or ideology based insurgency in the member States. However, it seems that the importance of the threat of terror to mankind in its present form of low intensity operations, proxy wars, selective targeting, destruction of valuable infrastructure, State sponsored terrorism and the threat of some nuclear countries running the risk of allowing their nuclear arsenal to be pilfered by vested interests and clashing groups are all vital issues on which a unified structure of resistance should have been formulated by the UN by now.
The question is how far are the big powers interested in meeting the universal challenge of terrorism? At G-20 meeting in Turkey, India voiced her concern and warned the world community that it had to think of framing a global structure to meet the menace. However, the US was very lukewarm and so were some more European powers. Recently the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) met for two days in Washington and discussed the issue of security of nuclear arsenals and related matters. What was the outcome? The meet even desisted from identifying the nuclear countries whose nuclear arsenals ere vulnerable to theft and pilferage and about which even the US has expressed her concerns more than once. Therefore India was right in calling a spade a spade at the special meet of the United Nations. India is one country that has been made a victim of proxy war by a militarized neighouring country and despite given more than sufficient proof of involvement of that country into terrorist attacks on her cities, Parliament, air bases and army installations, the world community takes it casually as if it means nothing to them. Indian Ambassador to the UN has very rightly said that meeting the challenge of global terrorism today is the litmus test of the ability of the UN to survive or go away one for all.
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