India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador highlights several proxy cross-border and state-supported terrorist attacks like the 26/11 Mumbai assault the country was subjected to from its neighbour. Exercising self-defence is a nation's primary right when a situation demands "immediate and proportionate action" and applies also to attacks by non-state actors, India told a UN meeting, highlighting several proxy cross-border and state-supported terrorist attacks like the 26/11 Mumbai assault the country was subjected to from its neighbour. “Despite this, some states are resorting to proxy war by supporting non-state actors such as terrorist groups to evade international censure. ‘Terror sponsor from neightbourhood’India for decades has been subject to such proxy cross-border and relentless state-supported terrorist attacks from our neighbourhood, he said. "The right of self-defence applies also to attacks by non-state actors.

Source: The Hindu February 25, 2021 05:37 UTC