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.
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.
Richard S. Williamson, Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs of the United States to the United Nations, addresses the Council.