New York, July 2 -- Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Parvathaneni Harish on Wednesday hit out at the international community's gridlock on counter-terrorism and called for the adoption of the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT).

Delivering India's statement at the adoption of the Ninth Review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, Harish outlined a comprehensive, six-point priority framework while sharply criticising the multilateral body's inability to reach a meaningful consensus on the misuse of emerging tech by terror groups.

Marking nearly three decades since India first proposed the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) in 1996, a decade before th...