The Brics Post, December 7, 2013
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| BRICS said they would step up cooperation and vigilance for maintaining global and regional peace [Xinhua] |
Chinese
State Councilor Yang Jiechi said on Friday that BRICS would step up cooperation
and vigilance for maintaining global and regional peace.
Yang was
addressing the BRICS meet on national security in South Africa’s Cape Town.
The group
of five also discussed measures to boost cyber-security in the wake of the
recent US snooping revelations. Brazil has successfully mustered enough support
to get a “right to privacy” resolution co-drafted with Germany passed by the UN
earlier in November.
China said
BRICS must take cognizance of the new security challenges facing the world.
In a
separate meeting with Shivshankar Menon, India’s national security advisor,
Yang said China hoped the two sides would enhance coordination in regional and
international affairs.
To combat
terror challenges, BRICS agreed to share best practices, capacity building and
information and intelligence, said a statement released after the meet.
China is
stepping up its campaign against terrorism after a recent suicide attack at the
Forbidden City overlooking Tiananmen square.
Authorities
termed that incident a “terrorist attack” and have said that it was carried out
by several people with links to a separatist group known as the East Turkestan
Islamic Movement from China’s far-western Xinjiang region, home to the mostly
Muslim Uighur minority.
Unlike
China where incidents of targeted terror-related violence has been sparse,
India has been among the most affected by terrorist attacks.
The Global
Terrorism Index – published in December 2012 by the US and Australia-based
Institute for Economics and Peace think tank ranked India among the top four
nations which has been a target of terror.
Meanwhile,
on Friday, the five nations also agreed to step up coordination towards
conflict resolution in troubled regions including the African continent.
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