<span style="color: #222222;">India has called for a zero-tolerance approach, without any double standards, to combat the existential global threat of the terror-crime nexus.<br />''<br />''At the 3rd High-level Special Event of United Nations and Shanghai Cooperation Organization, UN-SCO, held yesterday night in New York, India said that UN-designated terrorist organisations such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed continue to destabilise regions through their cross-border financing and propaganda.<br />''<br />''Speaking at the event, India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Syed Akbaruddin said that the terror-crime nexus is an existential global threat, the contours of which are mutating every day.<br />''<br />''In order to combat this menace, Akbaruddin said the international community will need to keep ahead of the new trends and technologies, something that can only be achieved if the global community work together, with a zero-tolerance approach, bereft of double standards.<br />''<br />''Mr.Akbaruddin said India looks forward to organising an SCO event in India on combating illegal financial flows related to narcotics trafficking in 2020.<br />''<br />''The Indian envoy emphasised that an added challenge in the nexus between terror and organised crime is the role of new and emerging technologies, including virtual currencies, encrypted communications and artificial intelligence.<br />''<br />''The Indian envoy quoted the Afghanistan Opium Survey by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, according to which out of an estimated 29 million dollars generated in illegal taxation of opium revenues in Afghanistan in 2018, 21 million dollars were collected by anti-government elements, including the Taliban.<br />''<br />''India, which joined the SCO in June 2017, has acceded to the 'SCO Agreement on Cooperation in Combating Illegal Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors', which provides for cooperation in the analysis of crimes related to illicit narcotic-trafficking and harmonization of national legislation in the fight against narcotics trafficking.</span><br />