SCO red card on using terror as state policy

Agrees to draw up unified list of barred terror outfits in grouping

- YESHI SELI

INDIA'S imprint was apparent in a joint statement the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) issued on Tuesday after their virtual summit, as it said it was inadmissible for states to use terrorist and extremist groups for achieving their political and geopolitical objectives.

Describing terrorism as "criminal and unjustifiable", the SCO states also agreed to develop common principles and approaches to form a unified list of terrorist, separatist and extremist organisations whose activities are prohibited on the territories of the member nations of the grouping.