World Powers To Stop Terrorism

  • 22-Jul-2021
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The United Nations and the international community need to start speaking in ‘one voice’ and demonstrate a ‘visible’ political will by completing the ongoing work relating to dealing with the challenge. On Thursday, President-elect of UN General Assembly Abdulla Shahid said it.

Shahid, the foreign minister of the Maldives, told that as the president of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, he will focus on expediting work towards a convention against terrorism and even rued that a definition of terrorism was yet to be reached.

According to Rashid, The United Nations and the international community need to start speaking in one voice in facing the scourage of terrorism. We need that united political will and it should be demonstrated by completing the work that has been ongoing at the UN on the convention against terrorism. 

He further said, We have still not been able to reach a definition of terrorism. Such actions need to make the terrorists realise that they have no place in the civilised nations.

Shahid arrived in India on Wednesday on a three-day visit. India is the first country that he is visiting in his official capacity as the President-elect of the UN General Assembly after he was elected to the post on June 7.

Referring to various aspects of the coronavirus crisis, he described the emerging ‘vaccine nationalism’ as ‘worrying’ and said the UN and all its 193 members should come together to address it.

 

‘If we fail to bring down the vaccine nationalism, we not only fail our people, we also fail the humanity because the enemy that we are fighting against is the virus. We cannot fight the virus if we start fighting ourselves,’ he said, amid growing concerns over the widening gap between developed and poor countries in the availability of COVID-19 vaccines.

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