G-20 Summit: One Eye On Terror And The Other On Economics – OpEd ( Source- Eurasia Review / Author- Mohammed Fahad Al-Harthi)
Image credits- MEA Official gallery, Govt of India Source- Eurasia Review Author- Mohammed Fahad Al-Harthi The barbaric attacks in Paris have led to discussions at the G-20 Summit in Antalya which have been more political than economic. Antalya, with its strict security, was packed with political and business delegations. Despite the summit’s economic focus, politics has forced itself into the discussions. The Paris attacks shocked the world only a few days before the summit; they showed yet again that terrorism has no respect for either religious or cultural boundaries. Saudi Arabia has always warned against terrorism, and the words of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman at the conference left no room for doubt or indecision. “We have suffered in the Kingdom from terrorism,” he said. “We have been determined to fight it rigorously and decisively, and to address its intellectual perceptions, especially those that take from the teachings of Islam a ju