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STORY: UN / TERRORISM LABORDE
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior
22 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Laborde entering press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Paul Laborde, Executive Director of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate:
“With over 30,000 foreign terrorist fighters coming from over one hundred countries, terrorism is a global threat which requires a global response. A country cannot, and is not in the position, to fight this phenomenon alone.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Paul Laborde, Executive Director of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate:
“We will not – as the universal community as a whole – we will not be in the position to counter terrorism effectively without the support of not only the governments but the society. This is a society which is a base for revolt against the terrible acts against the victims, against civilians. That’s where perhaps also we have to be more vocal in terms of the UN.”
6. Wide shot, Laborde
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Paul Laborde, Executive Director of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate:
“The first action is really to reduce to zero the territory of Da’esh (ISIL). This means that the so-called caliphate cannot anymore be a hope for anybody. That is the first action. So the action on the ground which is undertaken by the coalition plus other states in Syria and Iraq is one aspect. There is no hope anymore.”
8. Med shot, journalist asking question
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Paul Laborde, Executive Director of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate:
“Whatever means they use they use them. Today this one, tomorrow it will be another one. At the same time as I said they are using drug trafficking or they are trafficking women and children – It’s not me who is saying that it’s your (Italian) prosecutor anti-mafia. So they use all the means they can in order to recruit people because since the foreign terrorist fighters have much more difficulty then before to go into the territories because of the difficulties, they have to expand their propaganda in whatever field they want to expand. Tomorrow there will be something else.”
10. Zoom out, press room
A top UN counter-terrorism official said as the territorial grip and military force of Da’esh (ISIL) was reduced, the group’s capacities had been changing into those of a “real terrorist organization.”
Speaking to the press today (22 Jul), the UN Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) Jean Laborde said despite the reversal of Da’esh territorial expansion in recent months, the group was able to “commit or indirectly inspire” 393 attacks in 16 countries during the month of Ramadan this year. He said the world was not “becoming a safer place anytime soon because of this flexibility.” Laborde said the world was surprised by the recent attack in Nice because of “the extreme simplicity of the means and the ease in which the perpetrator has grown up to commit” this act.
Laborde said with over 30,000 foreign terrorist fighters coming from over one hundred countries, “terrorism is a global threat which requires a global response.” He stressed that no country was in the position to fight this phenomenon alone.
Asked what can be done to end the new “lone wolf “attacks being claimed or inspired by Da’esh, Laborde said the territory under the group’s control needed to first be reduced “to zero.” He said “the so-called caliphate cannot anymore be a hope for anybody.”
Laborde stressed the importance of cooperation in international counter-terrorism efforts including with civil society and the private sector. He said police forces should also have better intelligence through better relations with the communities. Such relations could motivate people to speak to authorities when suspicious activities happen in their communities. Laborde said closing websites which propagate for terrorist organizations was also important despite admitting that such a task could prove difficult.
In response to a question on Dae’sh using images of children killed by airstrikes as a means to inspire “revenge” attacks, Laborde stressed that Da’esh does not defend those civilians to claim retaliation for them. He said the group would use whatever means available to propagate “this culture of death” , however reminded of the need for compassion for the civilian that were killed “unwillingly” by troops fighting Da’esh.
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