China on Wednesday called for zero tolerance for terrorism and joint efforts on counter-terrorism via solidarity and cooperation.
At a United Nations (UN) Security Council Briefing on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts, Sun Lei, charge d'affaires of China's Permanent Mission to UN, urged the international community to maintain zero tolerance for terrorism.
"The international community should uphold a new security concept featuring common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, maintain zero tolerance for terrorism, avoid politicizing or instrumentalizing counter-terrorism, and strengthen the effectiveness of international counter-terrorism efforts through solidarity and cooperation," said Sun.
He also emphasized that effective governance of emerging technologies should be strengthened, so as to prevent the "three forces" of violent terrorism, ethnic separatism and religious extremism from exploiting emerging technologies to spread and infiltrate.
Sun then noted that China has been implementing the Global Security Initiative, actively participating in counter-terrorism cooperation under the frameworks of the UN, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS, sharing its counter-terrorism experience with the international community, and helping relevant countries in enhancing their counter-terrorism capacity.
China is willing to work with all parties to resolutely combat terrorism in all its forms and make positive contributions in building a world free of terrorism, he said.
China calls for zero tolerance for terrorism
