New Delhi, India (CU)_ India will host this year’s UN Security Council meeting on counter-terrorism. Accordingly, India is all set to welcome diplomats from the 15-member UN Security Council for a special meeting on October 29. Further, India is midway through its second year as an elected nonpermanent member of the United Nations Security Council. India’s tenure on the council expires in December, and in the same month, it holds the presidency of the most powerful United Nations body.
India leads the Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee for 2022. In October, India will welcome diplomats from the 15-nation Security Council, including the United States, China, and Russia, for a special summit of the Counter-Terrorism Committee. The existing members of the Security Council are Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, and the United Arab Emirates, with China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States being the five permanent members.
According to the committee website, taking account of the rising threat presented by the exploitation of new and developing technologies, the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) of the United Nations Security Council has agreed to convene a special meeting on the topic with the support of its Executive Directorate (CTED) in India on October 29, 2022.
It was stated that the special summit would concentrate on three major areas where thriving technologies are rapidly developing, growing use by member states, including for security and counter-terrorism causes, and increasing threats of misuse for terrorism purposes, including the Internet and social media, media, Terrorism Financing, and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS).
The Counter-Terrorism Committee very rarely gathers outside of New York. However, this is its seventh summit in India. The last special conference of the CTC outside of UN Headquarters was hosted in Madrid, Spain, in July 2015, with the topic of Foreign Terrorist Fighters as its focal point (FTFs).
