Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday issued a strong warning against “double standards” on terrorism at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Bishkek, and pitched for efforts to connect markets, facilitate trade and open new pathways for development.
The Prime Minister called for dismantling the "entire ecosystem of terrorism", including its financing, recruitment, radicalisation and safe havens, asserting that there can be no "double standards" in the fight against terrorism.
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Addressing the 26th SCO Summit, Modi said terrorism remains a "grave challenge to all of humanity" and stressed that the fight against it cannot be limited to a mindset of "action-reaction".
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"We must dismantle the entire ecosystem of terrorism--its financing, recruitment, radicalization, and safe havens. We must speak in one voice that there can be no place for double standards on this serious issue," he said.
"Those countries that use terrorism as an instrument of their policy, and provide shelter and support to terrorists, must be sent a strong message that terrorism cannot be a 'strategic asset' for anyone," the Prime Minister added.
