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3rd Ministerial Conference on Countering Financing of Terrorism – No Money for Terror held in New Delhi.

Highlights

• Hosted by : Ministry of Home Affairs,
• This Conference aims to progress the discussions on combating terrorist financing held by the international community in the previous two Conferences in Paris (2018) and Melbourne (2019).
• India was to host two global events the annual General Assembly of the Interpol in Delhi and a special session of the UN Counter Terrorism Committee in Mumbai and Delhi this year
• The agenda of the conference said that “terrorists and extremists have improvised on technologies like cryptocurrency and crowd funding by customising them to suit their requirement