‘Need to starve terrorists of financing and emerging technologies’: U.K.

Mr. Cleverly called on countries to fight "online" terrorism including global terror recruitment campaigns

The international community must work together to "starve" terrorists of finance and emerging technologies to stop destruction around the world, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Saturday.

In an address at the meeting of the U.N. Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee, Mr. Cleverly called on countries to fight "online" terrorism including global terror recruitment campaigns.

"Within the space of two decades, terrorists have gone from circulating crackly voice recordings from the depths of Tora Bora to global online recruitment and incitement campaigns, to live-streaming attacks," he said.

"Online incitement has radicalised vulnerable people in far-off countries who have gone on to use rental vans as weapons of terror," Mr. Cleverly said.

"So we must continue to work together to fight terrorist ideologies online," the British foreign secretary added.

Mr. Cleverly said the international community must "starve terrorists of the finance and emerging technologies that will cause death and destruction around the world”.

India hosted the meeting of the U.N. Security Council Counter Terrorism Committee in its capacity as its chair.