Original title: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: combating terrorism must abandon double standards
China Youth Daily client, Beijing, September 10 (Zhongqing daily · zhongqing.com reporter Hu Wenli) September 11 this year marks the 20th anniversary of the "9.11" incident. At today's regular press conference of the Chinese foreign ministry, spokesman Zhao Lijian said that terrorism is the public enemy of human society and combating terrorism is the common responsibility of the international community; To combat terrorism, we must abandon double standards and not draw a line with ideology.
"Over the past 20 years, international counter-terrorism cooperation has made important progress, but the current international counter-terrorism situation is still complex and grim." Zhao Lijian said that terrorism is the public enemy of human society, and combating terrorism is the common responsibility of the international community. All countries must work together to give full play to the central coordinating role of the United Nations in international counter-terrorism cooperation, attach importance to the elimination of the root causes of terrorism, solve the outstanding problems of terrorists abusing emerging technologies, and guard against terrorist forces using COVID-19 to incite terrorist activities.
Zhao Lijian stressed that the fight against terrorism must abandon double standards. Terrorists are terrorists. Defining who is a terrorist according to political self-interest is actually conniving at terrorist activities and seriously damaging the overall situation of international counter-terrorism cooperation. Nor can the fight against terrorism be marked by ideology. We are firmly opposed to attacking legitimate measures to discredit other countries' counter-terrorism and depolarization under the pretext of protecting ethnic minorities and religious freedom, and we are firmly opposed to seeking geopolitical self-interest by conniving at or even using terrorist organizations.
Zhao Lijian pointed out that after the "9.11" incident, the war in Afghanistan launched by the United States lasted for 20 years. Not only did it not eliminate the terrorist threat, but there was a significant increase in terrorist organizations and foreign terrorists in Afghanistan. The United States is the initiator of the Afghan problem and should draw profound lessons from it. The end of US military intervention should be the beginning of its real responsibility. The United States is more obliged than any other country to provide economic, livelihood and humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people. On the premise of respecting Afghanistan's sovereignty and independence, the United States will help Afghanistan achieve stability, prevent chaos, curb the threat of terrorism and move towards sound development.