New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pressed the International Community for urgent and unhindered, humanitarian assistance to Afghan citizens and underlined the need for having an inclusive administration in that country.

PM Modi in his virtual address at the G20 extraordinary summit on Afghanistan on Tuesday said a unified international response based on UNSC resolution 2593 is necessary to improve the situation in Afghanistan.  PM Modi in a tweet said that participated in the G20 Summit on Afghanistan. He stressed on preventing Afghan territory from becoming the source of radicalization and terrorism.

The UNSC resolution, adopted on August 30 under India’s presidency of the global body, talked about the need for upholding human rights in Afghanistan, demanded that Afghan territory should not be used for terrorism and that a negotiated political settlement should be found out to the crisis.

According to the MEA sources PM Modi called for enhancing the joint fight against the nexus of radicalization, terrorism and the smuggling of drugs and arms in the region. “In order to preserve the socio-economic gains of the last 20 years and to restrict the spread of radical ideology, the prime minister called for an inclusive administration in Afghanistan, which includes women and minorities,” it said.