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STORY: FRANCE / COUNTER-TERRORISM
TRT: 1.36
SOURCE: COUNCIL OF EUROPE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 APRIL 2011, STRASBOURG, FRANCE
1. Pan left, Conference venue
2. Wide shot, conference
3. Wide shot, audience
4. Med shot, audience
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ekmeleedin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General, Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC):
“It has been proven that dealing with terrorism, killing htem, or exterminating them does not end the phenomena of terrorism. We have to deal with the root causes. We have to find a global solution and to have to devise also solutions within the societies, or environments where the focus of terrorist activities are active. We have to be creative. We think that more than one trillion dollars has been spent on what has been called as the World on Terrorism, but we see that the result is not as what we expected.”
6. Cutaway, meeting
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General, Council of Europe:
“The council of Europe has adopted a very important convention against terrorism and this convention is criminalizing incitement for terrorism. And we hope that this can be discussed at this conference and we also have to keep in mind that this convention was the basis for a UN resolution. So we hope that the UN can take this particular point a step forward.”
8. Wide shot, meeting
The Council of Europe today opened a special three-day meeting of the Security Council Counter-terrorism Committee focused on prevention policies, comprehensive and integrated strategies and the role of law enforcement and the criminal justice system in preventing terrorism.
On the sidelines of the conference, Ekmeleedin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) said that it had been proven in the past that dealing with terrorism, “killing them, or exterminating them does not end the phenomena of terrorism. We have to deal with the root causes.”
He added that a global solution should be found. “We have to be creative,” he said, more than one trillion dollars has been spent on terrorism, “but we see that the result is not as what we expected.”
Recalling the Council of Europe’s convention against terrorism signed in May 2005 which criminalizes any incitement for terrorism, Thorbjorn Jagland, the Council of Europe’s Secretary-General hoped that the United Nations could take “a step forward” at this meeting.
The conference will include group discussions on prevention policies that would concentrate on radicalization and incitement, terrorist recruitment and the role of public-private partnerships. It will also discuss strategies that focus on national frameworks and inter-agency coordination, communication and international cooperation.
The 15-member Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) was established by the Security Council in its resolution 1373(2001) adopted under chapter VII of the UN charter, following the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.
The CTC ensures the implementation of resolutions 1373 (2001) and 1624 (2005), calling on member states to take several steps to enhance their legal and institutional capacity to prevent and combat terrorist activities on a national, regional and global basis.
As a regional organisation, the Council of Europe is committed to facilitating the implementation of UN Resolutions. The Council of Europe has been strengthening legal action against terrorism through three main international treaties: the Convention on the Prevention Terrorism, the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism and the Convention on Cyber crime.
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