India will be chairing the Counterterrorism Committee in January 2022 at United Nations Security Council. It also coincides with the 75th Anniversary of India’s Independence.

The committee stands for greater significance for India, as the country has been pitching pertinent measures to evict and fight terrorism on the global platform.

The UNSC Committee on Counterterrorism will be chaired by India after 10 years, as India last chaired this committee in 2012.

Earlier this year, on January 8, 2021, India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador TS Tirumurti had declared that India will chair 3 important communities at UN Security Council in 202-22, including the Taliban Sanctions Committee, Libya Sanctions Committee and the counter-terrorism Committee.

Counterterrorism Committee was formed in September 2001 soon after the tragic terrorist attack of 9/11 in New York.

“The chairing of this Committee has a special resonance for India, which has not only been at the forefront of fighting terrorism, especially cross-border terrorism but has also been one of its biggest victims,” said Tirumurti earlier this year.

India won the eighth term in an election in June 2020 securing 184 of the 192 votes cast. It was last on the council in a two-year term ending 2012. Its previous terms were 1950-1951, 1967-1968, 1972-1973, 1977-1978, 1984-1985 and 1991-1992.

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