The minister is on a five-day visit to South Africa to attend meet of BRIC foreign ministers
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday called for joint action by BRICS nations against money laundering, terrorist financing, and deradicalisation.
Swaraj, who is on a five-day trip to South Africa, was attending BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Foreign Ministers' meeting. The meeting is expected to lay the foundation for the annual summit of the grouping in Johannesburg next month. Other foreign ministers attending the meeting were China's Wang Yi, South Africa's Lindiwe Sisulu, Brazil's Marcos Bezerra Abbott Galvao and Russia's Sergey Lavrov.
"Though global growth has exhibited signs of recovery, the challenges to long-term growth continue to persist. Ensuring that the benefits of globalisation are shared widely remains a challenge," she added.
"Prime Minister Modi had called for a BRICS Counter-Terrorism Strategy for joint-action with a focus on money laundering, terrorist-finance, cyber-space, and de-radicalisation as our priorities," Swaraj said. "Our leaders have also called for making UN Counter Terrorism framework efficient and effective. We reiterate our commitment to implement our leader's mandate on counter terrorism under South Africa's BRICS Chairship," she said.
BRICS Cooperation in strategic areas of security, counter-terrorism, UN reforms, peacekeeping, de-radicalisation, cyber security, energy security, global governance, and international and regional hot-spot issues are deliberated in detail during the National Security Advisor's meetings, she said.
"It is an imperative now that the common ground reached in our NSAs meeting on setting up a BRICS Security Forum is implemented fully," she said.
Swaraj said that India welcomes South Africa's summit theme devoted to development in Africa in an inclusive manner. "We also welcome the focus on technology as the engine of future growth and its significance for future generations and their employment prospects," she added.
Swaraj will also chair a meeting of Foreign Ministers of IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa), another bloc working to deepen coordination among the three countries on major global issues.
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