NEW DELHI: Maintaining that terrorism, especially nuclear terrorism is an international threat that should not serve national strategy, India today pitched for a global response in this regard, saying negative consequences of atomic power cannot be overlooked.
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, who inaugurated the 2017 edition of the Implementation and Assessment Group (IAG) Meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT), also advocated a two-pronged strategy — one to clamp down on terrorism in general and the other to restrict unauthorised access to nuclear technology and material.
Hoping that the horrors of atomic power destruction would never be repeated, he said, “Events that have unfolded around us, more so in the past couple of decades, have highlighted that terrorism remains the most pervasive and serious challenge to international security. If access to nuclear technology changes State behaviour, it is only to be expected that it would also impact on non-state calculations. (AGENCIES)
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