Kuala Lumpur, Feb 23: Non-aligned countries today struggled to arrive at a consensus on the definition of terrorism with India appealing to the 114-member grouping to firmly strike at the "roots" of the menace and adopt "No double standards" while fighting it.
"It would be far better if the international community focuses on the root of terrorism rather than root causes of terrorism," Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal told reporters as senior Nam officials continued their deliberations late into the night to reach an agreement on the draft on terrorism to be presented to the two-day summit beginning tomorrow. The differences seemed to have got some "additional oxygen" due to the situation in Iraq and the debate has become "heavily coloured" by the Arab-Israeli dispute and the Palestine issue, Sibal said, hoping some sort of consensus might emerge before the summit.
Bureau Report