New Delhi: India will host a two-day “No Money for Terrorism” Ministerial Conference here next week, according to top government sources.
This is the third conference of its kind being organised in Delhi on November 18-19. A number of ministers, diplomats and counter-terrorism experts from the member states are expected to attend the meeting.
The conference is being organised here by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under the supervision of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
The first such meeting was held in Paris (France) in 2018 and the second in Melbourne (Australia), in 2019. Nearly 65 nations participated in the 2019 conference.
India was to host the conference in 2020 but it was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The conference is organised by Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) of over 150 countries, jointly called the Egmont Group.
Discussion on 'Countering Financing of Radicalisation (CFR)', which would prevent radicalisation -- an essential prerequisite of terrorism-- and misuse of virtual assets, especially crypto-currencies, are among the focussed agenda of the conference, said a senior official in India's FIU on condition of anonymity.
Among other prominent issues of the meeting is to improve the sharing of information and cooperation between FIUs.
The second edition of the conference was held in Melbourne where India called for a united global effort against all those who support terror or help generate finances for terror. India also pointed out how terror groups are active on social media and that undermines any ban the United Nations (UN) might have. (Agencies)
