‘Social media has become a potential instrument of terror toolkit’: EAM Jaishankar at UN
On Saturday, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on the Special Meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) highlighted that the web and social media platforms have turned in potential devices within the toolkit of terrorists for radicalization and spreading propaganda to be able to destabilize societies.
In his speech, Jaishankar revealed that lately, terrorist teams, ideological allies, notably in liberal societies, and “lone wolf” attackers have considerably elevated their capabilities by having access to these applied sciences.
According to EAM Jaishankar, terrorists continuously use “technology, money, and the ethos of open societies to attack freedom, tolerance, and progress.”
“The internet and social media platforms have evolved into potent tools in the toolkit of militant groups,” he mentioned.
He additionally acknowledged that the unregulated use of unmanned aerial techniques poses a threat. “Because these unmanned aerial platforms are a relatively low-cost option with increasing ease of access, misuse of these unmanned aerial platforms for malicious purposes such as weapon and explosives delivery and targeted attacks has become an immediate threat,” he mentioned.
Jaishankar introduced that India will make a voluntary contribution of $500,000 to the UN Trust Fund for Counter-Terrorism this 12 months to help counter-terrorism initiatives in member international locations.
Minister of External Affairs additionally highlighted the flip sides of know-how saying that it has posed new challenges to the federal government, notably given the nation’s “nascent regulatory environment.”
Delivered the keynote tackle on the plenary session of UNSC particular assembly of counter-terrorism committee on ‘Countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes’ in New Delhi immediately. pic.twitter.com/1rIVnAvSwe
— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) October 29, 2022
The minister described terrorism as one of many gravest threats to humanity, saying, “The UN Security Council has evolved an important architecture, built largely around the counter-terrorism sanctions regime, to combat this menace over the last two decades.” And it has been very efficient in placing these international locations on discover who’ve turned terrorism right into a state-sponsored enterprise.”
As successive stories of the 1267 Sanctions Committee Monitoring Reports have highlighted, the specter of terrorism is just rising and increasing, notably in Asia and Africa.
The United Nations Security Council’s two-day anti-terrorism assembly is being held in India (UNSC). The present assembly in Delhi is being held below the auspices of India’s chairmanship of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC).
Jaishankar notified CTC members that their attendance on the particular assembly in Delhi underlines the prominence that UN Security Council member states and a various vary of stakeholders place on this important and rising facet of terrorism.
