India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, TS Tirumurti, was named the new Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the United Nations on January 4, 2022. Tirumurti, before taking up his current position as the Permanent Representative of India to the UN, had served as the Secretary in the External Affairs Ministry.
India will chair the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Un Security Council in January 2022. In 2021, the country was asked to chair three important Committees of the United Nations Security Council. It includes the Counterterrorism Committee, Taliban Sanctions Committee, and the Libyan Sanctions Committee.