India chaired 6th meeting of BRICS Counter-Terrorism Working Group 2021 (भारत ने ब्रिक्स काउंटर-टेररिज्म वर्किंग ग्रुप 2021 की छठी बैठक की अध्यक्षता की)
India chaired 6 meeting of BRICS Counter-Terrorism Working Group 2021
On July 28-29, 2021, the 6th meeting of the BRICS Counter Terrorism Working Group
(CTWG) 2021 was held virtually which was chaired by Mahaveer Singhvi, Joint
Secretary for Counter-Terrorism, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).India Chaired the
Meeting.
During the meeting they finalized the BRICS Counter Terrorism Action Plan.
All BRICS nations viz. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa participated in
the meeting.
Key Points:
i.During the meeting BRICS countries exchanged views on terrorism threat assessment at
national, regional and global level.
ii.They also agreed to further enhance counter terrorism cooperation in line with the
Action Plan of the BRICS Counter Terrorism Strategy which was BRICS leaders in 2020.
iii.The Action Plan is one of the key deliverables during India’s Chairship of BRICS for
increasing intra-BRICS collaboration on combating terrorism, radicalisation, financing of
terrorism, misuse of the Internet by terrorists.
It will also curb travel of terrorists, strengthen border control and protect soft
targets.
iv.The BRICS CTWG meeting was preceded by the five thematic sub-working
groups on misuse of Internet for terrorist purpose, deradicalisation, countering terrorist
financing, capacity building and countering foreign terrorist fighters, held on July 26-27,
2021.
About BRICS:
BRICS represents 41 per cent of the global population, 24 percent of the global GDP and
16 per cent of the global trade.
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