India has consistently kept the spotlight within and outside the UN Security Council on combating terrorism and prevented efforts to "dilute" the focus on the scourge, India's Permanent Representative to UN Ambassador TS Tirumurti said, The Tribune reports on July 29. India will assume the rotating Presidency of the 15-nation UN Security Council on August 1, 2021, the country's first Presidency during its 2021-22 tenure as a non-permanent member of the Security Council. “India has consistently kept the spotlight on combating terrorism, both inside the Council and outside as well," TS Tirumurti told. "We have not only strengthened the efforts to combat terrorism, especially for example in the financing of terrorism, we have also prevented efforts to dilute the focus on terrorism,” he added.