• India Resolution-Measures to prevent the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by terrorists were co-partnered by 75 countries & more, adopted by consensus without a vote.
• India is the victim of state-sponsored cross-border terrorism, highlighting the serious threat to international peace and security arising from the acquisition by terrorist groups of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
• India`s resolution predates the Security Council`s (UNSC) adoption of resolution 1540.
• From its 2004 resolution, the United Nations Security Council ( UNSC) took a decision to prevent States from providing any form of assistance to non-State actors attempting to produce, manufacture, possess, transport, procure, transmit or use nuclear weapons, chemical or biological weapons and their supply, in particular for terrorist organizations.
• The CCIT-Comprehensive Agreement on International Terrorism has not yet been agreed to by the UN.
• In 1996, India suggested the adoption of the CCIT by the UNGA to include a comprehensible legal structure for counter-terrorism.
• The CCIT (Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism) aims to describe terrorism in a universal way, to prosecute terrorists under special rules, to make cross-border terrorism an extraditable crime worldwide.

UNGA is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, performing as the United Nations(UN) leading policy-making and popular agency. The UN (international organisation) was founded in 1945. It is currently composed of 193 member states.

Iran`s Port and Maritime Organization (PMO) has passed on to India a request for locomotives and signalling equipment for the Chabahar-Zahedan railway line. Iran has been confronting trouble in acquiring them straightforwardly because of the authorizations forced by the USA.

 

♦ Iran has likewise requested that India initiate the USD 150 million credit line which was offered to it by India during the Iranian President`s visit in 2018.

♦ Chabahar Port is on the Gulf of Oman and is just 72 km away from the Gwadar port in Pakistan which has been created by China. The port fills in as the main maritime port of Iran and comprises of two separate ports named Shahid Beheshti and Shahid Kalantari.

♦ In May 2016, India, Iran and Afghanistan consented to the three-dimensional arrangement which involved the foundation of Transit and Transport Corridor among them utilizing Chabahar port in Iran as one of the territorial centre points for ocean transportation.

♦ Development of a rail line from Chabahar port to Zahedan, along the fringe with Afghanistan as another shipping lane to Afghanistan and Central Asia, was likewise a piece of it.

♦ The state-claimed Indian Railways Construction Ltd. (IRCON) marked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Iranian Rail Ministry to offer a wide range of assistance, superstructure work and financing (around USD 1.6 billion).

♦ In July 2020, Iran chose to continue with the rail line development all alone, referring to delays from the Indian side in starting and financing the undertaking.

♦ IRCON finished the site review and possibility report, and had been trusting that the Iranian side will name a nodal authority.

♦ Despite the fact that the task has made sure about an extraordinary waiver from the USA, India is reluctant to manage the development organization which has joins with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and is under the authorizations.

♦ The IRGC is a firm stance power which works its own military framework in corresponding to Iran`s standard military. In April 2020, it dispatched Iran`s first military satellite, Noor.

♦ The dread of assents by the USA has likewise affected Indian interest in the Farzad-B gas field task of Iran.

Exchange: It is being viewed as a door to brilliant open doors for exchange by the three nations with other Central Asian nations in the wake of Pakistan denying travel admittance to India.

Security: China is forcefully seeking after its own Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) added to the One Repertoire One Road (OBOR) venture. The port can likewise go about as a counter to Pakistan`s Gwadar Port, which is being created with Chinese speculation.

Availability: In future, the Chabahar venture and the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) will supplement each other by improving Indian network with Russia and Eurasia.

 

 

Armenia and Azerbaijan have signed the Russia-Brokered Peace Deal, an agreement that aims to end the military conflict over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The signing event follows six weeks of fighting between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians.

 

♦ Under the deal, Azerbaijan will keep areas of Nagorno-Karabakh that it has taken during the conflict. 

♦ Armenia has agreed to withdraw from several other adjacent areas over the next few weeks.

♦ Russian peacekeepers will be deployed to patrol the front line at Karabakh. They will guard the Lachin corridor which links the Karabakh capital, Stepanakert, to Armenia.