Mumbai’s Taj Palace to be venue of first day’s assembly of UN counter-terror panel
By PTI
NEW DELHI: India will host the opening day’s deliberations of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee on October 28 at Mumbai’s iconic Taj Palace Hotel which was one of many targets of the horrific 26/11 terror assaults practically 14 years in the past.
The assembly of the highest UN panel on October 29 might be held in Delhi, officers stated.
The choice of Taj Palace Hotel because the venue for first day’s programme is seen as an try and ship throughout a message about India’s robust resolve to take care of terrorism.
On November 26, 2008, a bunch of 10 Pakistani terrorists went into rampage, finishing up a coordinated assault on a railway station, two luxurious lodges (Taj Palace and Oberoi-Trident lodge) and a Jewish centre after they sneaked into India’s monetary capital, utilizing the ocean route within the Arabian sea from Karachi.
Over 160 folks have been killed within the practically 60-hour assault that despatched shockwaves throughout the nation and even introduced India and Pakistan to the brink of a struggle.
“The special meeting of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee on ‘Countering the Use of New and Emerging Technologies for Terrorist Purposes’ will begin with a soft opening and associated events in Mumbai on October 28 and continue with a full day’s meeting in New Delhi on October 29,” the panel stated in a press release.
India is the Chair of the committee for the 12 months 2022 and can host diplomats of the 15-nation UN physique together with different member states for the particular assembly in Mumbai and New Delhi.
The actual fact that the Special Committee can also be assembly in Mumbai itself might be a tribute and a press release to the horrific incident, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj, stated final week.
She stated the members of the committee will place a wreath on the website of the assaults.
India’s two-year tenure as an elected non-permanent member of the 15-nation UN Security Council will finish in December.
The assembly in Delhi is anticipated to particularly deal with growing risk of terrorism advert methods to successfully take care of it.
The conferences in Mumbai and Delhi would be the seventh time that the committee members would collect exterior the UN headquarters in New York.
The final particular assembly of the panel that befell exterior the UN headquarters was in Madrid in July 2015.
NEW DELHI: India will host the opening day’s deliberations of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee on October 28 at Mumbai’s iconic Taj Palace Hotel which was one of many targets of the horrific 26/11 terror assaults practically 14 years in the past.
The assembly of the highest UN panel on October 29 might be held in Delhi, officers stated.
The choice of Taj Palace Hotel because the venue for first day’s programme is seen as an try and ship throughout a message about India’s robust resolve to take care of terrorism.
On November 26, 2008, a bunch of 10 Pakistani terrorists went into rampage, finishing up a coordinated assault on a railway station, two luxurious lodges (Taj Palace and Oberoi-Trident lodge) and a Jewish centre after they sneaked into India’s monetary capital, utilizing the ocean route within the Arabian sea from Karachi.
Over 160 folks have been killed within the practically 60-hour assault that despatched shockwaves throughout the nation and even introduced India and Pakistan to the brink of a struggle.
“The special meeting of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee on ‘Countering the Use of New and Emerging Technologies for Terrorist Purposes’ will begin with a soft opening and associated events in Mumbai on October 28 and continue with a full day’s meeting in New Delhi on October 29,” the panel stated in a press release.
India is the Chair of the committee for the 12 months 2022 and can host diplomats of the 15-nation UN physique together with different member states for the particular assembly in Mumbai and New Delhi.
The actual fact that the Special Committee can also be assembly in Mumbai itself might be a tribute and a press release to the horrific incident, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj, stated final week.
She stated the members of the committee will place a wreath on the website of the assaults.
India’s two-year tenure as an elected non-permanent member of the 15-nation UN Security Council will finish in December.
The assembly in Delhi is anticipated to particularly deal with growing risk of terrorism advert methods to successfully take care of it.
The conferences in Mumbai and Delhi would be the seventh time that the committee members would collect exterior the UN headquarters in New York.
The final particular assembly of the panel that befell exterior the UN headquarters was in Madrid in July 2015.
