New Delhi: As India gears up for the upcoming “No Money For Terror’ Conference being organized in the national capital, 78 countries excluding Pakistan are set to take part in the conference starting from November 18.
The conference is scheduled to take place between November 18 and November 19. Dinkar Gupta, NIA DIG, said that “78 countries and multilateral organizations are participating in the third edition of the ‘No Money For Terror’ Conference.”
He further said that social media platforms are used as crowdfunding platforms, and finances raised through such sources are ultimately used for terror purposes while adding “This is an issue which needs to be discussed.”
He announced that Pakistan will not be a part of the Conference. However, Secretary West (MEA) Sanjay Verma said that China has been invited to the ‘No Money For Terror’ Conference.
In the conference, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi around 11 am, India will seek cooperation from all countries to address challenges in combating terrorism financing.
The agenda of the Conference includes discussion on structures of terror financing like Crowdfunding; anonymous, decentralised and untraceable nature of terror financing; effective multilateral and multi-stakeholder approach in identification and mitigation of threats of emerging terror-financing mechanisms; misuse of non-profit and nongovernment organisations.
This Conference aims to progress the discussions on combating terrorist financing held by the international community in the previous two Conferences in Paris (2018) and Melbourne (2019).
(With Agency Inputs)