Outgoing Chair of Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee Says United Nations Now Centre of Global Anti-Terrorism Network

It had taken a ""horrific"" act less than five miles from the Security Council Chamber to shake the international community into adopting legally binding, global standards against terrorism, but 18 months later the counter-terrorism effort was a global network, with the United Nations at the centre, the Council was told today.
Briefing the Council for the final time, Jeremy Greenstock, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, and the outgoing Chair of the Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee, which was established in the wake of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, said the Committee's work thus far -- using transparency and consistent hard work -- had unlocked the potential of collective effort, which would pay dividends, because no country could prevent terrorism in isolation.
The Committee was established to monitor implementation of Council resolution 1373 (2001), which set out wide-ranging steps and strategies to combat terrorism, among others, calling on all States to take steps to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism and report on steps they took to that end.