United Nations, June 30, 2025 – India’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, urged the member states of the United Nations to unite against all acts of terrorism in the world and to bring the perpetrators to justice. He also called for establishing a global protocol to deal with terrorism and terror attacks.
“Terrorism is one of the gravest threats to humanity. It is the antithesis of everything that the UN stands for,” Jaishankar said.
He was speaking at the inauguration of ‘The Human Cost of Terrorism’ exhibition at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on June 30, 2025. Organized and curated by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, the exhibition will be on display at two locations in the UN Headquarters from June 30 to July 3 and July 7 to July 11.
The exhibition begins just the day before Pakistan takes on the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July, the news outlet IANS noted.
It highlights twenty nine major terror attacks around the world, including the 9/11 attacks in the US, the 2006 Mumbai train bombings, the 2008 Mumbai assaults, the April 22, 2025 Pahalgam attack, the 2016 Uri attack, the 2019 Pulwama strikes, the 2016 Brussels bombings, the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings and more.
A separate digital screen provides information related to the attacks. It includes a list of the perpetrators of the attacks, number of victims and those injured, their nationalities, details of the terrorism set ups and individuals responsible for the attacks.
Strongly expressing the need to bring terrorist attacks to the attention of the world community, Jaishankar referred to Pakistan’s role in the terrorist attack on unsuspecting tourists in Pahalgam.
“When terrorism is supported by a state against a neighbor, when it is fueled by the bigotry of extremism, when it drives a whole host of illegal activities, it is imperative to call it out publicly and one way of doing so is to display the havoc that it has wreaked on global society,” he said.
Speaking of the trauma and pain that the families of victims of terrorism undergo, Jaishankar said the exhibition aims to express solidarity with those families. “Their pain is a stark reminder of the urgency of our shared responsibility to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations,” he said.
The exhibition also displays the global response to terrorism along with steps taken by India to combat terrorism, protect human rights and foster regional cooperation. These include the Delhi Declaration against terrorist misuse of tech and AI.
Jaishankar referred to the recent UN Security Council condemnation of the terrorist act in Pahalgam, where the UNSC demanded that its perpetrators be held accountable and brought to justice.
He called for a renewed global commitment to end terrorism. “Here at the United Nations we must not just remember and honor but commit ourselves anew to act to protect and to uphold those very values and human rights that terrorism seeks to destroy,” he said.
Keeping in view how terrorism anywhere is a threat to peace everywhere, Jaishankar urged the UN to set up protocols to deal with the threat of terrorism.
“It is time the world came up with some basic ways to deal with terrorism,” he said and listed universal measures such as no impunity to terrorists, no treating them as proxies and no yielding to nuclear blackmail. “Any state sponsorship must be exposed and must be countered,” Jaishankar said, without naming Pakistan.
The exhibition, he said, “is a fitting reminder of the challenge before us.”
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