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Shri Anand Sharma

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2011-06-24
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2011-06-24
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  1. “We need to expand the scope of legal instruments and expand enforcement efforts to destroy their safe havens, their financial flows and their support networks. We would also argue that the need to squarely face the complicity of States is a central requirement if we were to proceed. He who does not prevent a crime when he can encourages it. India has been a targeted victim of crime and terrorism and has paid an enormous price over the years. Thousands of innocent victims have lost their lives. As we prepare to mark the tenth anniversary of 11 September 2001, we should collectively resolve to confront and vanquish terror and the terror-crime nexus. We owe it to future generations to give them a safe and secure world.”

    2011-06-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6565 (2011) · source

  2. “An effective international counter-terrorism strategy must complement and supplement an effective international strategy to combat transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal arms trafficking and the illegal movement of nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly materials. There is a need for a new global compact to tackle terrorism and transnational crime. We need to remove the moral and legal ambiguities that allow terrorists and criminals to gain succour and even legitimacy. We need an international mechanism to ensure accountability and justice. We need concerted international efforts to expose and destroy the linkages that exist between terrorists and criminals and their State and non-State supporters.”

    2011-06-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6565 (2011) · source

  3. “We believe that determined national efforts are required. The cornerstones of this fight are still supply-reduction strategies involving sustained alternative development programmes for the cultivators of drug-yielding crops, as well as the overall economic development of the concerned regions. India chairs the Security Council's Counter- Terrorism Committee. We have found that terrorists and criminals nourish each other. Terrorists, like criminals and drug traffickers, recruit in one country, raise funds in another and operate in still others.”

    2011-06-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6565 (2011) · source

  4. “We are committed to the sharing and exchange of information, and we would also like to exchange best practices. We believe that assisting Member States in the training of law enforcement officials on a regular basis should receive priority in the international cooperation agenda. We support the efforts of UNODC to assist in developing capacities, training and in creating the administrative, legal and institutional frameworks for fighting transnational organized crime. Indian agencies are working in those fields with UNODC in some South Asian countries. We have contributed $200,000 to the Paris Pact initiative of UNODC and will host the Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies this year. The late Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, once said that "A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own".”

    2011-06-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6565 (2011) · source

  5. “India is committed to strengthening the international normative and legislative mechanisms that are required to create a framework for countering this threat. In this connection, I am happy to inform the Council that India ratified the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its three Protocols last month. We are also strengthening this international framework by entering into several bilateral and plurilateral agreements and memorandums of understanding in this area. The UNODC also deals with corruption, and I am glad to inform the Council that that the Government of India ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption last month. At the operational level, we are committed to strengthening the international structures that respond to these threats.”

    2011-06-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6565 (2011) · source

  6. “The illicit production and trafficking of drugs has spawned a huge network of criminal groups in our neighbourhood with close links to various international terrorist networks. The money and resources generated from those activities are fuelling the growth of terrorism and funding extremist groups. It is evident that the threat posed by transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, terrorism, money laundering, illegal arms trafficking and the illegal movement of nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly materials requires a coordinated global response on the part of the international community. We believe that the United Nations is the best mechanism for developing such a coherent transnational response.”

    2011-06-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6565 (2011) · source

  7. “They have much in common with terrorists, with whom they ally, because they have the same objectives and use the same methods. Their motivations are also the same, even as they attempt to mask those motivations with great sophistication. One of the great tragedies of our time has been the inability of some States to see through the machinations of this criminal-terrorist nexus. Their short-sightedness has imposed a cost that the whole international community is bearing. The threat posed by drug trafficking deserves special mention. More than 90 per cent of the world's production of opium takes place in India's neighbourhood. We are situated between the two large drug-trafficking zones - the Golden Crescent, centred around the Afghanistan area, and the Golden Triangle, in the Myanmar-Laos area.”

    2011-06-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6565 (2011) · source

  8. “Even as many parts of the world enjoy unprecedented peace, prosperity and technological advancement, they remain mired in unending conflict and misery. Some of these conflicts have lasted for decades, imposing a human cost that is difficult to comprehend. Economies have been wrecked, and human and material resources that could have fuelled progress have been diverted. Non-State actors and criminal organizations are among the principal delinquents responsible for this state of affairs. They thrive in areas of conflict and in post-conflict situations. Their activities exploit the weaknesses of the nations they operate in and are designed to perpetuate those weaknesses. Their success is evident from the fact that their organizational capacities and firepower match or even better those of many States.”

    2011-06-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6565 (2011) · source

  9. “I would like to commence by thanking the Gabonese presidency for having organized this meeting on transnational organized crime and drug trafficking. I would also like to thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for his briefing. Transnational organized crime and drug trafficking do not exist in isolation. They belong to a malignant complex that includes terrorism, money laundering, illegal arms trafficking and the illegal movement of nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly materials. This wider malignancy is destroying and destabilizing societies and nations. Weak and fragile States, such as those on the agenda of the Council, are particularly vulnerable.”

    2011-06-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6565 (2011) · source