India wants 'zero tolerance' to terrorism

United Nations, Sept 28 (PTI) India today asked members of the UN Security Council to adopt an ambitious outcome document that emphasizes zero tolerance to terrorism, saying terrorists have continued to take innocent lives from Moscow to Mumbai in the decade following the 9/11 attacks. India's Permanent Representative to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri, who is also Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the UN Security Council, today told a special meeting here that 9/11 symbolizes neither the beginning nor the end of terrorism. It is my expectation that our deliberations today will usher in a new qualitative and substantive improvement in the normative framework and we will adopt an ambitious outcome document that, will introduce a new 'zero tolerance' paradigm in the international community's fight against terrorism, Puri said. He was speaking at the 10th anniversary commemoration of the adoption of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) and establishment of the Counter- Terrorism Committee, set up in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Puri told the high-level meeting that there is hardly any region of the world that has not been scarred by terrorism during the past decade. The events in Abuja, Baghdad, Bali, Kabul, London, Madrid, Moscow, and Mumbaito mention a feware but footnotes to the tremendous personal tragedies involved. While great progress has been made in the past decade to combat terrorism, more needs to be done squarely and decisively against the terrorist of today who is waging an asymmetric warfare against the international community.