Avoid politicisation of UN listings, FATF to disarm terrorists: PM Modi at Leader's dialogue

India Today
September 24, 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday attended the Leaders' Dialogue on 'Strategic Responses to Terrorist and Violent Extremist Narratives' at the UN headquarters in New York where he suggested the institutionalisation of "counter-terrorism cooperation at the multilateral level."

"PM Modi suggested institutionalising counter-terrorism cooperation at the multilateral level. PM Modi said that terrorists should not be allowed to get funds and arms. For this objective to be realised, we need to avoid politicisation of mechanisms like UN listings and FATF [Financial Action Task Force]. UNGA," a tweet by ANI quoted Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) secretary (West) Gitesh Sharma as saying.

It was jointly hosted by the King of Jordan, President of France, Prime Minister of New Zealand and the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UNSG).

PM Modi earlier addressed the high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage and Climate Action Summit.

At the Climate Action Summit, PM Modi said that the time for talking is over as he announced plans to increase India's renewable energy capacity to 450 GW from 175 GW and invited countries to join the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure being launched by India.

PM Modi referred to his call on Independence Day for a people's movement to end the use of single-use plastic.

At the Universal Health Coverage meet, PM Modi announced that India has set the goal of eradicating tuberculosis by 2025 noting that the dateline is five years ahead of that set by the United Nations under its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

PM Modi also apprised the UN member countries of the historic steps taken by his government to increase affordable healthcare access to far-flung areas in the country.

Besides the two important summits, PM Modi held a flurry of bilateral meetings with several world leaders and reviewed bilateral ties. He also met UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.

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