*Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, at a UN Security Council Counter-terrorism Committee, in India, tell the global world ‘we must starve terrorists of the finances and emerging technologies that they would use to do us harm’

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United Kingdom (UK) Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said countries worldwide must work together to fight online terror and cut terrorists鈥� resources to prevent deadly attacks.

Mr. Cleverly, who told the United Nations (UN) meeting held Saturday, October 29, 2022, in India, stated, “we must starve terrorists of money and technologies.”

UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly

He urged urged the global community to tackle terror groups鈥� exploitation of modern technological advances, The Independent UK report said.

Speaking at the UN Security Council Counter-terrorism Committee, in New Delhi, He urged allied states to tackle terror groups鈥� exploitation of technologies.

“We must starve terrorists of the finances and emerging technologies that they would use to do us harm,” he noted.

Cleverly also said: 鈥淲ithin the space of just two decades, terrorists have gone from circulating crackly voice recordings from the depths of Tora Bora, to global online recruitment and incitement campaigns, to livestreaming attacks.

鈥淎nd online incitement and radicalisation of vulnerable people in far-off countries, who have then gone on to use simple rental vans as weapons of terror.”

The Foreign Secretary further said: 鈥淪o we must continue to work together to fight terrorist ideologies online.

“Nations must starve terrorists of the finances and emerging technologies that they would use to do us harm.”

He noted that “the Internet has also given terrorists groups murky new routes to conceal their finances and sustain their activities.”

According to him, Britain is working with allies to tackle illicit finance, push tech companies to crack down on extremist content, and challenge propaganda by so-called Islamic State.

The UK is also funding new technologies to counter drones being used to inflict terror and destruction, such as those employed to target critical infrastructure and civilian targets in Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine, said Cleverly.

The Foreign Secretary also stated, that he had a 鈥減ositive and productive meeting鈥� with India鈥檚 minister of external affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

He tweeted: 鈥淲e discussed collaboration on trade, investment, defence & security to improve the lives and livelihoods of our citizens.”

It comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi he hopes to make 鈥済ood progress鈥� on finalising a new trade deal, after the Government missed the Diwali deadline for striking an agreement set by former PM Boris Johnson.

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