‘Our fight is against such radical ideologies and not against democracy’: India at U.N. counter-terrorism annual briefing
The Hindu
“We see a renewal of this attempt by trying to divide terror again into categories and label them.”
India has underlined the need to distinguish between political ideologies that are part of a pluralistic democratic polity and the radical ideologies that subscribe to terrorism, emphasisng that any attempt to paint both of them with the same brush is "inaccurate" and "counterproductive".
Speaking at the Ambassador-level Annual Briefing to Member States organised by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T.S. Tirumurti said India has always maintained that nations should not go back to pre-9/11 era when terrorists were being divided into ‘your terrorist’ and ‘my terrorist’.
He said the categorising them weakens the collective resolve to combat terrorism.

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