It's crucial to reject double standards, stand firmly against politicizing counterterrorism efforts: Wang Yi
Global Times
By Global Times Published: Sep 21, 2023 05:54 PM
It is crucial to reject double standards and stand firmly against politicizing and instrumentalizing counterterrorism, given the actions of some countries smearing the justified counterterrorism efforts of other countries in the name of human rights, democracy and religion, China's top diplomat Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, said in a written statement at the 13th Ministerial Plenary Meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum on Wednesday.
According to Wang, the world today is experiencing transformation and turbulence. Changes unseen in a century are unfolding at a faster pace. International counterterrorism has achieved notable effects. Yet there remain daunting difficulties and challenges. With terrorist and extremist forces stirring trouble and colluding across borders, terrorist networks continue to spread and expand. The use of emerging technologies by terrorist groups has made it harder for the international community to forestall and frustrate terrorist activities.
Faced with the deep-seated scourge of terrorism, countries have a shared responsibility of effectively addressing the root causes of the problem, and overcome the international counterterrorism dilemma. China is also a victim of terrorism, and is confronted with the real threats from the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), an international terrorist group listed by the UN Security Council. As it combats terrorism, China is also reflecting deeply on and exploring a solution to this pressing issue.
Last year, President Xi Jinping put forward the Global Security Initiative (GSI). The Initiative advocates the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, emphasizes maintaining security in both traditional and non-traditional domains, and calls for creating a new path to security that features dialogue over confrontation, partnership over alliance, and win-win over zero-sum mentality.
The Initiative provides China's proposals on meeting international security challenges, and offers new thinking for international counterterrorism cooperation. In the GSI Concept Paper, counterterrorism is among the 20 priorities for future partnership, Wang added.
China calls upon the international community to uphold the GSI's vision and principles in advancing international counterterrorism cooperation and jointly make new contributions to the global fight against terrorism, Wang noted.
The Chinese side proposed that the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security should be followed as a guiding philosophy. Countries need to commit to pursuing common security, respect and protect the security of every country, and crack down on terrorism.
"We need to take a holistic approach to address both the symptoms and the root causes of terrorism and remove its breeding ground through comprehensive measures covering political dialogue, economic recovery, betterment of people's lives, mutual learning among civilizations, and international cooperation," Wang stressed.
The purposes and principles of the UN Charter should be taken as a fundamental guidance. Countries need to safeguard and practice true multilateralism, and earnestly uphold and enhance the UN's central role in coordinating international counterterrorism efforts.
We should support the full implementation of the counterterrorism resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council, and the UN Global Counterterrorism Strategy, and work together to clamp down on all terrorist organizations and individuals listed by the U.N. Security Council, Wang wrote.
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