New Delhi, Oct 14: Emphasising that the current situation in Afghanistan is of grave concern, India today called on the international community to unite against the menace of terrorism, as seriously as it does on issues like climate change and pandemics.
While addressing the 6th Ministerial meeting of the Conference of Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) at Kazakhstan capital Nur-Sultan on Tuesday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that cross-border terrorism is not statecraft, it is simply another form of terrorism.
“Any calculation that extremism, radicalisation, violence and bigotry can be used to advance interests is a very short-sighted one. Such forces will come back to haunt those who nurture them. Lack of stability will also undermine our collective efforts to get Covid under control,” he said at the joint meeting of CICA foreign ministers with the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
