India calls for cooperation between FATF, UN to combat terror financing
(WorldNews India)

UNITED NATIONS: India has strongly condemned any direct or indirect financial assistance to terrorists and terror groups by nations that enables them to pursue their activities, including in defending criminal cases against them. Speaking at a General Assembly Sixth Committee meeting on `measures to eliminate international terrorism', First Secretary/Legal adviser in India's Permanent Mission to the UN Yedla Umasankar on Wednesday called for increased cooperation between the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the UN to combat terror financing. `The flow of resources meant to produce terror are required to be stopped by States for which collective inter-State efforts are...