NEW DELHI: Describing terrorism as a “cancer” afflicting humanity in the same way that a pandemic does, Foreign Minister, S Jaishankar, beaten Pakistan on Friday saying that the states that have converted the production of terrorists as a “primary export” they are also trying to present themselves as victims of terrorism. ”
Delivering the Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture at the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Jaishankar said that the real challenges in the world are “phenomena such as terrorism, pandemics and climate change. These are the problems that will really test the seriousness of multilateralism. ”
But sustained action and international pressure can turn the tide, he said. “As we saw last week, sustained pressure through international mechanisms to prevent the movement of funds for terrorist groups and their front agencies can work. Finally, it has forced a state complicit in assisting, inciting, training and leading terrorist groups and associated criminal syndicates to grudgingly acknowledge the presence of wanted terrorists and organized crime leaders in its territory. Under pressure from FATF, Pakistan was forced to impose sanctions on Dawood Ibrahim and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi among others.
Jaishankar’s comments show how much Manmohan Singh’s Pakistan policy has been repudiated. In 2006, India implicitly admitted that Pakistan was also a “victim” of terrorism in a joint statement between Manmohan singh and Pervez musharraf in Havana, establishing a joint antiterrorist mechanism. Since 2016, the Modi government has completely reversed any such assessment within the Indian system.
Terrorism, Jaishankar said, did not start on September 11 and Covid-19 is not the first pandemic. “And yet, in both cases, globally focused responses to either challenge have tended to emerge only when there has been enough disruption created by a ‘spectacular’ event.” It took a “heinous attack with airliners as weapons of mass destruction to underscore the age of terror, similarly it has taken a lethally contagious virus to unleash a pandemic that has brought the world to its knees,” Jaishankar observed.
Jaishankar, in a speech in favor of “reformed multilateralism”, which is a mantra of the Modi government, said that international organizations are needed to change and reflect the world today rather than the world in which they were created, so that they could respond to current problems more effectively. In a subtle attack on the WHO, he said: “This time, international alert systems, notification protocols and response mechanisms could not prevent the spread (of the Covid pandemic) beyond ground zero.”
Pushing for the adoption of the General Convention on International Terrorism as an important marker of multilateralism, he said, “We need to modernize the international system, step by step, to fit its purpose, starting with making each entity relevant to the era in which that we live in, not when it was created. This requires reviewing the membership and control structures, reorienting the operational principles and rules, and rebuilding the resource channels of the key pillars of multilateralism.
Globalization also needs to be redefined. “We have allowed it to be defined by the interests of a few, who envision that process largely in financial, business and travel terms. Actual globalization can never be just an aggregate of transactions in these domains. It is the result of collaboration and indivisibility ”. On video: Like pandemics, terrorism also affects all of humanity: S Jaishankar
Delivering the Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture at the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Jaishankar said that the real challenges in the world are “phenomena such as terrorism, pandemics and climate change. These are the problems that will really test the seriousness of multilateralism. ”
But sustained action and international pressure can turn the tide, he said. “As we saw last week, sustained pressure through international mechanisms to prevent the movement of funds for terrorist groups and their front agencies can work. Finally, it has forced a state complicit in assisting, inciting, training and leading terrorist groups and associated criminal syndicates to grudgingly acknowledge the presence of wanted terrorists and organized crime leaders in its territory. Under pressure from FATF, Pakistan was forced to impose sanctions on Dawood Ibrahim and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi among others.
Jaishankar’s comments show how much Manmohan Singh’s Pakistan policy has been repudiated. In 2006, India implicitly admitted that Pakistan was also a “victim” of terrorism in a joint statement between Manmohan singh and Pervez musharraf in Havana, establishing a joint antiterrorist mechanism. Since 2016, the Modi government has completely reversed any such assessment within the Indian system.
Terrorism, Jaishankar said, did not start on September 11 and Covid-19 is not the first pandemic. “And yet, in both cases, globally focused responses to either challenge have tended to emerge only when there has been enough disruption created by a ‘spectacular’ event.” It took a “heinous attack with airliners as weapons of mass destruction to underscore the age of terror, similarly it has taken a lethally contagious virus to unleash a pandemic that has brought the world to its knees,” Jaishankar observed.
Jaishankar, in a speech in favor of “reformed multilateralism”, which is a mantra of the Modi government, said that international organizations are needed to change and reflect the world today rather than the world in which they were created, so that they could respond to current problems more effectively. In a subtle attack on the WHO, he said: “This time, international alert systems, notification protocols and response mechanisms could not prevent the spread (of the Covid pandemic) beyond ground zero.”
Pushing for the adoption of the General Convention on International Terrorism as an important marker of multilateralism, he said, “We need to modernize the international system, step by step, to fit its purpose, starting with making each entity relevant to the era in which that we live in, not when it was created. This requires reviewing the membership and control structures, reorienting the operational principles and rules, and rebuilding the resource channels of the key pillars of multilateralism.
Globalization also needs to be redefined. “We have allowed it to be defined by the interests of a few, who envision that process largely in financial, business and travel terms. Actual globalization can never be just an aggregate of transactions in these domains. It is the result of collaboration and indivisibility ”. On video: Like pandemics, terrorism also affects all of humanity: S Jaishankar
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