FATF cannot be used as political tool, says Maleeha Lodhi
NEW YORK: In the Security Council, Pakistan has warned against the politicisation of the UN’s counter terrorism machinery saying this would only compromise the integrity of the regime.
Speaking in the Security Council debate on “Preventing and Combating the Financing of Terrorism,” Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi said that current structures like FATF and the 1267 Sanctions regimes should not be used as political tools by some to advance their geopolitical goals.
“There is also a need to make these institutions more inclusive of the wider membership in their decision-making processes”, she added.
She pointed in her comprehensive statement to the several gaps that existed in the international community’s counter terrorism strategy. She identified the lack of international attention given to foreign intervention and foreign occupation, denial of the right to self-determination to peoples living under foreign occupation and continued violations of international law and the UN Charter as examples of such gaps.
The Pakistani envoy asserted that despite being obvious causative factors, these situations were ignored or cast aside. She said that the international community agreed that continued and persistent violations of human rights contributed to violent extremism. Yet killings continue in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Palestine.
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