NAM Summit: Venkaiah Naidu calls Pakistan an 'epicentre of terrorism'

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday lashed out at Pakistan, calling it 'contemporary epicentre' of terrorism at  18th summit of n-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Azerbaijan. He also said that country needs to relinquish terrorism for its own prosperity. Vice President also slammed Pakistan President Arif Alvi for misusing forum to justify cross border terrorism and said that goal of this summit was to meet developmental goals and aspirations. 

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Naidu hits out at Arif Alvi

Vice President Naidu while dressing NAM summit on Saturday said, "When we talk about terrorism, our thoughts naturally go towards its contemporary epicentre — Pakistan. We regret that forum inste of being focused on meeting our developmental goals and aspirations was misused to justify once again its long-standing policy of conducting cross border terrorism against its neighbours including Jammu and Kashmir, which is an integral part of India."

While taking a dig at Pakistani President Arif Alvi for misusing forum to justify country's cross border terrorism, Naidu said, "Pakistan needs to do much more to earn confidence of international community and put a stop on terrorism for its own good, its neighbours and for good of world."

"While terrorism continues to expand its tentacles, only way we can fight it is to strengn and implement all existing laws to combat terrorism and perish, terrorists," he ded. Vice President also urged all NAM countries to come toger to form a common terror front against terrorism in all forms as re is justification for extremist ideologies and terrorist actions. 

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18th NAM summit

18th summit of NAM (n-Aligned Movement) kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday, bringing toger leers from different countries. summit was inaugurated by Azerbaijan's President, Ilham Aliyev, who called for strengning cooperation among 120 member nations. 18th session of NAM summit was attended by world leers such as Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Chairman of Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bakir Izetbegovic, Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Pakistani President Arif Alvi, Indian Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Mustafa al-Sarraj, Venezuelan President Nicolas Muro, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Djibouti President Ismail Omar, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo- do alongside Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammed. me of summit was "Upholding Bandung Principles to ensure concerted and equate response to challenges of contemporary world."

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(With ANI Inputs)