India has welcomed an initiative by UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to create a new office for counter-terrorism and stressed the nations should not allow turf battles to hobble the proposal. <br/><br/>India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin said that no single nation alone can tackle this menace decisively. He was speaking during an informal meeting on strengthening of the capability of the UN system in implementing Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. <br/><br/>Mr Akbaruddin said terrorism thrives on and is sustained by its trans-boundary networks for ideology, recruitment, propaganda, funding, arms, training and sanctuary. He however said that nations should not let differences impact the initiative and dent its credibility. <br/><br/>UN Guterres mooted the proposal to move the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force Office and the UN Counter-Terrorism Centre out of the Department of Political Affairs and create a new office for counter-terrorism.