United Nations: The UN General Assembly has expressed its "unwavering commitment" to strengthening global cooperation against terrorism and asked member states to accelerate efforts to implement the strategy drawn up by it to deal with the scourge in all its aspects.
Adopted on September 8,2006,the strategy united for the first time all 192 UN member States behind a common strategic framework.
They had agreed to take a concrete set of measures to address terrorism in all its aspects, and, by that action, to convey the same critical message -- terrorism is never justifiable, whether on political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other grounds.
The two-day review meeting which concluded yesterday was the first major assessment of their efforts to implement the strategy s four pillars -- to address the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism; to prevent and combat terrorism; to build state capacity to prevent and combat terrorism and to strengthen the role of the UN in that regard; and to ensure respect for the human rights of all as well as the rule of law as the fundamental basis for the fight against terrorism.
In a resolution adopted by the Assembly, member States reaffirmed the Global Strategy and its four pillars, as well as their own primary responsibility to implement it.
The Assembly called on States, which had not yet done so to consider becoming parties to existing international anti-terrorism instruments, to make every effort to conclude a comprehensive convention on international terrorism. Source : PTI
