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India, Brazil, South Africa call for action against terror groups, proxies

External Affairs minister S Jaishankar, Brazil Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira and South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola met on the sidelines of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

External Affairs minister S Jaishankar

Condemning terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, India, Brazil and South Africa Thursday called for “concerted action” against all UN-listed terrorists and terrori entities including Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), and other proxy groups and their facilitators.

External Affairs minister S Jaishankar, Brazil Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira and South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola met on the sidelines of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The joint statement by the India-Brazil-South Africa grouping said: “The Ministers condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations wherever committed and by whomsoever. They concurred that terrorism is a global scourge that must be fought and that terrorist safe havens eliminated in every part of the world. They reaffirmed that the fight against terrorism must be carried out with full respect for international law, in particular the Charter of the United Nations and international human rights law.”

They called upon the international community to establish a broad international counter-terrorism framework in accordance with the principles of international law.

Shubhajit Roy

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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