India has told the UN that use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy cannot be tolerated. <br/><br/>Addressing a UN committee on "Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism", Legal adviser and First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, Yedla Umasankar said that the fight against terrorism has to be unrelenting and fought across all fronts. <br/><br/>He said that the international community cannot afford selective approaches in dealing with terrorist groups or in dismantling the infrastructure of terrorism.<br/> <br/>India strongly condemned direct or indirect financial assistance to terrorist groups or individual members thereof by countries or its machineries, to pursue their activities, including in defending the criminal.<br/><br/>Amidst calls for the draft comprehensive convention to eliminate terrorism to be finalised, Mr. Umasankar pointed out that even though India had brought a proposal for a comprehensive convention against terrorism before the General Assembly in 1996, the UN had so far been unable to adopt it due to the issues of definition over who was a terrorist. Chinese delegate Shi Xiaobin insisted that counter- terrorism efforts must strictly comply with international law