Updated: November 18, 2020 7:21:31 am
Delhi blames China’s all-weather ally Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism against India.
China signed the BRICS Counter-Terrorism Strategy which called on all countries to take measures to prevent the use of their territories for terrorist activities against other countries or their own citizens.
While Russia was the key drafting country as host and chairman of the BRICS this year, China also signed the declaration that speaks of “respect for the territorial integrity” of Syria, Libya, Iraq and in the context of the UN.
However, the six-month border confrontation between India and China.
The BRICS counter-terrorism strategy, issued late on Tuesday, said that member countries “urge all nations to take appropriate measures to prevent the use of their territories for terrorist bases or the perpetration or organization of terrorist acts destined to be committed against other States or their citizens ”.
He also emphasized the need for “all States to refrain from organizing, instigating, facilitating, participating, financing, encouraging or tolerating terrorist activities and to take appropriate practical measures to guarantee that their territories are not used for bases, preparation or organization terrorists of terrorist acts intended to be committed against other States or their citizens ”.
This is especially important since Prime Minister Narendra Modi had pointed to terrorism as the biggest problem in his comments. Delhi blames China’s all-weather ally Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism against India.
The BRICS countries also highlighted the cross-border movement of terrorists. The BRICS countries “recognize that the acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations are activities aimed at the destruction of human rights, fundamental freedoms and democracy, threatening the territorial integrity, the security of the States, and that the international community should take the necessary measures to improve cooperation to prevent and combat terrorism, including the cross-border movement of terrorists, ”the statement said.
First President Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 12th BRICS virtual summit. (Source: Narendra Modi / YouTube screenshot)
The statement also pointed to the issue of territorial integrity in the context of the UN, Syria, Iraq and Libya. We call on the international community to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations by intensifying efforts to establish a more just, inclusive, equitable and representative multipolar international system, based on the sovereign equality of all States and respect for their territorial integrity and mutual respect for everyone’s interests and concerns, ”he said.
We reaffirm the principles of non-intervention in the internal affairs of States and the resolution of international disputes by peaceful means and in accordance with the principles of justice and international law, as well as the inadmissibility of the threat or use of force against the territory integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other way incompatible with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations. We also highlight the imperative to refrain from any coercive measure that is not based on international law and the UN Charter, ”he said.
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