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| Friday, 28 January 2005 |
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UN calls for multilateral anti-terrorism cooperation ALMA-ATA, Kazakhstan, Thursday (Xinhua) A UN anti-terrorism meeting was held here on Wednesday, focusing on strengthening cross-border cooperation to fight terrorism. At the two-day meeting of the UN Security Council's Counter- Terrorism Committee (CTC), over 70 representatives from international and regional organizations will also discuss how to intercept funds for terrorists and to guarantee the security of the international transport. At the opening ceremony, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev said terrorism has posed a global threat to international security. Nazarbayev pointed out that the United Nations (UN) has played an important role in international anti-terrorism campaign, and only the UN can form a most wide-ranging and effective anti- terrorism alliance. Nazarbayev also expressed support for the UN's proposal to establish a regional security and cooperation mechanism in order to prevent international and national conflicts. Those regional mechanism should include the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Central Asian Cooperation Organization and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence- Building Measures in Asia, he added. Also at the opening ceremony, CTC Chairman Andrey Denisov said the CTC will strengthen cooperation with international and regional organizations because they have accumulated rich experience in fighting terrorism. Denisov said the CTC was evaluating those countries who need help in the field of anti-terrorism campaign so that the CTC can offer practical aids to them. Meanwhile, Vladimir Rushailo, top official of the Commonwealth of Independent States, said many CIS countries are now on the frontier of the anti-terrorism campaign. Rushailo said the CIS was eager to fight terrorism, but called on the Western partners to avoid "double standards." |
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