New York (PTI) India on Tuesday sought an early conclusion of the comprehensive convention against global terrorism by the UN which will provide a legal framework that can supplement the existing conventions to deal with scourge.

Terrorist attacks in different parts of the world points not only to the all pervasive and global nature of terrorism but reinforces the belief that terrorism continues to be the biggest threat to the world at present, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri said.

"Therefore, if not challenged effectively and collectively, this monster would continue to rear its ugly head and wreak havoc time and again," he said in his speech at a UN meeting on "Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism" held at the UN headquarters in New York.

Mr. Puri said the fight against terrorism demands effective international cooperation so that those who are responsible, whoever they are and wherever they may be, are brought to book. "If the most dangerous terrorist groups have found ways to operate on a global scale, so must efforts to thwart them," he argued.

The terrorist networks, he said, draw on their collective strengths to exploit to maximum advantage the targeted governments' and international community's inadequate and uncoordinated responses.

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