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United against terror: On UNSC Counter-Terrorism Committee meeting in India

India must continue to persuade (राज़ी करना, मनाना, प्रेरित करना) others that terrorism is a threat to humanity (इंसानियत, मानवता)

India’s decision to host (आयोजित करना, व्यवस्थित करना) the United Nations Security Council’s (संयुक्त राष्ट्र सुरक्षा परिषद) Counter-Terrorism (आतंकवाद विरोधी) Committee (समिति, सलाहकार निकाय) (CTC) is an important marker of the Government’s ongoing (निरंतर, अंतहीन, चलता आ रहा) effort to highlight (ध्यान आकर्षित करना, रेखांकित करना) terrorism issues at a time the global body has been more focused on the Ukraine war. Held in Mumbai and Delhi, it brought UN officials, and ministers and diplomats (राजनयिक, दूत) from all members of the Security Council (UNSC), to discuss challenges to the global counter-terrorism architecture (संरचना, गठन, वास्तुकला). In Mumbai, the spotlight (लोकप्रियता) was on the 26/11 attacks. Despite the global nature of the terror targets, India has had an uphill battle since 2008 in international cooperation to pursue the case, and in bringing the lone surviving attacker, Ajmal Kasab, through a full trial and execution (killing, hanging, putting to death). After a brief period of information sharing, Pakistan has dragged its feet on prosecuting (मुकदमा चलाना, खिलाफ कार्रवाई करना) even LeT commanders Hafiz Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi and others that its Federal Investigative Agency (संघीय जांच एजेंसी) held responsible for the attacks. During the UNSC conference, the attendees (प्रतिभागी) heard not only from victims of the attacks but also voice (express, reveal, state, mention, point out) samples of LeT recruiter Sajid Mir directing terrorists during the attacks; even so Mir, now in a Pakistani prison on terror financing charges, after Pakistan’s grey-listing at the Financial Action Task Force (वित्तीय कार्रवाई कार्य बल) mandated (required, authorized, instructed) action, has not been tried. The U.S., which has cooperated in many other ways with India on terrorism, convicted (pass judgement on, punish, sentence) conspirators (conspirer, plotter/schemer, intriguer) David Headley and Tahawwur Rana for the attacks, but has refused to extradite (to surrender a fugitive (a person who has escaped from being confined/accused of crime) from one (country’s) jurisdiction to another by mutual agreements between the two countries; hand over, deport, banish/expel) them. Meanwhile, China continues to block designating (name, identify, recognize, classify) LeT leaders on the UNSC 1267 terror list, a problem External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken specifically mentioned at the conference.

In Delhi, the CTC focus was on online radicalisation (the process of causing someone to follow radical (extreme) ways particularly in politics ( & society)) and terror recruitment, terror financing through crypto-currency (a type of digital currency) and virtual assets (a digital representation of value that can be digitally traded, or transferred, and can be used for payment or investment purposes), and unmanned aerial system use including drones for terror strikes (attack), transporting drugs and arms (weapons of war, weaponry, firearms, guns, artillery, armaments). The deliberations (careful thought, thinking, consideration, discussion, consultation, debate) led to the “Delhi Declaration on countering (se, resist, combat, stand up to) the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes”. While India has only two months left in its current elected tenure (term of office, period in office, period of office, time in office) at the UNSC, the Government appears to be making efforts to keep up (continue, maintain, continue with, go on with, carry on with, persist with) the momentum (energy, strength, impetus) from the CTC meet; it will host an international “No Money For Terror” conference (November 18-19), and a UNSC special briefing (conference, meeting (being held for instructions, directions or guidelines on something)) on challenges to global counter-terrorism efforts (December 15-16). As the Indian experience with 26/11 has shown, the global community has often been long on statements but short on cooperative action, and New Delhi will have to keep pressing the point (to repeat (mentioning) a point frequently in a way in order to show that it is very important) that terrorism remains, in Mr. Jaishankar’s words, amongst the “gravest threats to humanity”.

Courtesy: The Hindu

Important Word List With Meaning

1.United Nations Security Council (UNSC) (noun)

Hindi Meaning - संयुक्त राष्ट्र सुरक्षा परिषद
English Meaning - it is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, charged with ensuring international peace and security.

2.counter-terrorism (noun)

Hindi Meaning - आतंकवाद विरोधी
English Meaning - anti-terrorism; actions taken to combat or prevent terrorism.

3.committee (noun)

Hindi Meaning - समिति, सलाहकार निकाय
English Meaning - advisory body; committee, board, council, panel.

4.persuade (verb)

Hindi Meaning - राज़ी करना, मनाना, प्रेरित करना
English Meaning - influence, convince, induce, prompt (someone to do something through reasoning/analysis/thinking/justification/rationalization).

5.humanity (noun)

Hindi Meaning - इंसानियत, मानवता
English Meaning - human beings, humankind, the human race.

6.host (verb)

Hindi Meaning - आयोजित करना, व्यवस्थित करना
English Meaning - organize, arrange (an event).

7.ongoing (adjective)

Hindi Meaning - निरंतर, अंतहीन, चलता आ रहा
English Meaning - continuous, constant, unending.

8.highlight (verb)

Hindi Meaning - ध्यान आकर्षित करना, रेखांकित करना
English Meaning - emphasize, draw attention on, underline, underscore.

9.diplomat (noun)

Hindi Meaning - राजनयिक, दूत
English Meaning - ambassador, envoy, consul, emissary.

10.architecture (noun)

Hindi Meaning - संरचना, गठन, वास्तुकला
English Meaning - structure, formation, composition, organization.

11.the spotlight (noun)

Hindi Meaning - लोकप्रियता
English Meaning - the public attention, the focus of public/media; the public eye.

12.prosecute (verb)

Hindi Meaning - मुकदमा चलाना, खिलाफ कार्रवाई करना
English Meaning - take to court, bring an action against, take legal action against, accuse, charge.

13.Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) (noun)

Hindi Meaning - संघीय जांच एजेंसी
English Meaning - the premier agency of Pakistan at national level to investigate federal crimes.

14.attendee (noun)

Hindi Meaning - प्रतिभागी
English Meaning - a person who attends a conference.

15.Financial Action Task Force (FATF) (noun)

Hindi Meaning - वित्तीय कार्रवाई कार्य बल
English Meaning - The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog. The inter-governmental body sets international standards that aim to prevent these illegal activities and the harm they cause to society.

16.Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) (noun)

English Meaning - The UN CTC, comprising all 15 members of the Security Council, was established by Resolution 1373 (2001) on 28 September 2001. Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter (concerning threats to international peace and security), the Security Council adopted the resolution to enforce counter-terrorist measures in United Nations Member States.

17.marker (noun)

English Meaning - a distinctive feature.

18.uphill (adjective)

English Meaning - arduous, difficult, hard/tough, taxing, demanding.

19.trail (noun)

English Meaning - court case, judicial proceedings, legal action.

20.execution (noun)

English Meaning - killing, hanging, putting to death.

21.drag one’s feet (phrase)

English Meaning - delay, procrastinate, postpone action, put off doing something, use delaying tactics, take one’s time.

22.hold someone responsible for (phrase)

English Meaning - to blame someone for something; lay at someone’s door, pin something on.

23.voice (verb)

English Meaning - express, reveal, state, mention, point out.

24.grey/watch list (noun)

English Meaning - a list of countries on observation due to their “strategic deficiencies” in countering terror-financing and money-laundering. The countries put on grey/watch list by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will be subjected to direct monitoring and intense scrutiny by the International Co-operation Review Group (ICRG) on terror financing.

25.blacklist (noun)

English Meaning - a list of countries which the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) judges to be non-cooperative in the global fight against money laundering and terrorist financing.

26.mandated (adjective)

English Meaning - required, authorized, instructed.

27.try (verb)

English Meaning - investigate and decide (a case) in a formal trial.

28.convict (verb)

English Meaning - pass judgement on, punish, sentence.

29.conspirator (noun)

English Meaning - conspirer, plotter/schemer, intriguer.

30.extradite (verb)

English Meaning - to surrender a fugitive (a person who has escaped from being confined/accused of crime) from one (country’s) jurisdiction to another by mutual agreements between the two countries; hand over, deport, banish/expel.

31.designate (verb)

English Meaning - name, identify, recognize, classify.

32.radicalisation (noun)

English Meaning - the process of causing someone to follow radical (extreme) ways particularly in politics ( & society).

33.cryptocurrency (noun)

English Meaning - a type of digital currency.

34.virtual asset (noun)

English Meaning - a digital representation of value that can be digitally traded, or transferred, and can be used for payment or investment purposes.

35.Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) (noun)

English Meaning - drone; an aircraft that carries no human pilot or passengers.

36.strike (noun)

English Meaning - attack.

37.arms (noun)

English Meaning - weapons of war, weaponry, firearms, guns, artillery, armaments.

38.deliberation (noun)

English Meaning - careful thought, thinking, consideration, discussion, consultation, debate.

39.led to past tense of lead to (verb)

English Meaning - result in, cause, bring on, bring about, give rise to.

40.New Delhi Declaration (noun)

English Meaning - a resolution that was passed unanimously in its New Delhi Declaration (paragraph22 in the XIII BRICS Summit, September 9, 2021). The core demand in this resolution was that the five BRICS nations were opposed to the unilateral use of force against any state, wanted all disputes resolved by peaceful means, and categorically ruled out the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.

41.counter (verb)

English Meaning - oppose, resist, combat, stand up to.

42.tenure (noun)

English Meaning - term of office, period in office, period of office, time in office.

43.keep up (phrasal verb)

English Meaning - continue, maintain, continue with, go on with, carry on with, persist with.

44.momentum (noun)

English Meaning - energy, strength, impetus.

45.keep up the momentum (phrase)

English Meaning - to continue doing what is being done till the successful completion.

46.briefing (noun)

English Meaning - conference, meeting (being held for instructions, directions or guidelines on something).

47.long on something and short on something (phrase)

English Meaning - having excess or surplus of one quality/feature and not enough of another quality/feature.

48.press the point (phrase)

English Meaning - to repeat (mentioning) a point frequently in a way in order to show that it is very important.

49.gravest superlative adjective of grave (adjective)

English Meaning - serious, terrible, awful.