FORTALEZA: The sixth BRICS summit opened in the Brazilian seaside resort July 15, with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiling a host of suggestions to invest the grouping of emerging powers with greater strategic weight and making a renewed call for greater intra-BRICS counter-terror cooperation.
In his address to the BRICS leaders at the closed-door session held at the Ceara International Convention Centre in this port city, Prime Minister Modi underlined zero tolerance for terrorism and pressed for closer counter-terror cooperation among BRICS countries. I firmly believe that terrorism, in any shape or form, is against humanity, said Mr Modi. There should be zero tolerance towards terrorism, he added.
“Terrorism is a threat that has assumed war-like proportions. It is in fact a proxy war aimed at innocent civilians. Due to different yardsticks the international community has not been able to combat terror effectively,” the prime minister stressed in his maiden speech to the leaders of emerging countries.
“Humanity must unite, and isolate terrorist forces,especially states that flout basic norms. Selective targeting of terrorism will not work.”
He also underlined the need for “an open, rule-based, international trading regime,” and said it was “critical for global economic growth. It must address aspirations of developing world, he said.
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