FM for dialogue to cut security threats

Foreign Minister Dipu Moni yesterday observed that all security challenges can be addressed through dialogue and appreciation of nations' perspectives to ensure peace and stability in the South Asian region.
She said this while addressing a special session on 'South Asia's growing security threats' at the 11th Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore yesterday, said a foreign ministry press release.
China's influence in Asia and the Pacific, India's aspiration as a major international player, anti-Western sentiments carried by the Islamist groups has turned South Asia into a strategically important region today, she said.
Dipu Moni said a sense of grievance sets in whenever peripheral countries cannot fetch the maximum from the global economic system or feel exploited by the capitalist economy; and this is affecting international security by various means including the rise of extremism.
Food and water scarcity, energy deficit, carbon emission, sea level rise, environmentally induced displacement, bearing the brunt of emissions from industrialised economies by the small countries like Maldives, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal have also constituted a major security threat to the present day world, she observed.