<span style="color: #222222;">India has called for increased cooperation between the United Nations and organizations such as the Financial Action Task Force to deal with the nexus of terrorist groups and transnational organized criminal networks that helps raise funds for terror financing and recruiting and other illicit activities across borders.<br />'' <br />'' Speaking at a General Assembly Third Committee that deals with social, humanitarian affairs and human rights issues, First Secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN Paulomi Tripathi said, transnational organized crimes continue to undermine efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals, and threaten international peace and security. She said, the activities of terror groups such as ISIL, Al Shabab and Boko Haram using extortion, human trafficking, extraction of natural resources, trade in cultural artefacts and illicit taxation in areas under their control, manifest the blurring of lines between crime and terror.<br />'' <br />''<br />''Ms Tripathi underscored that such a situation calls for far more coherent and resolute response and the UN needs to increase cooperation with other bodies such as FATF, which is playing a significant role in setting global standards for preventing and combating money laundering and terrorist financing. The Paris-based FATF is an inter-governmental organization to develop policies to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.</span><br />