Anti-terrorism symposium. (Peace Watch).As the United Nations symposium on combating international terrorism Noun 1. international terrorism - terrorism practiced in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain wrapped up on 4 June, UN officials said the ideas generated at the meeting would serve to increase the momentum in the fight against the scourge. A large number of participants had called attention to the potential role of the UN Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP ODCCP United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention ODCCP Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention (UN) ) in fighting terrorism, noted Antonio Maria Costa Antonio Maria Costa is an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, appointed in May 2002 to the positions of Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV). , who heads the Office and is also the Director-General of the UN Office at Vienna, pledging that "we will be carefully examining what they have suggested". He hailed the achievements of the Security Council's Counter-terrorism Committee and stressed the "complementarity com·ple·men·tar·i·ty n. 1. The correspondence or similarity between nucleotides or strands of nucleotides of DNA and RNA molecules that allows precise pairing. 2. " between its work and that of ODCCP. Committee Chairman Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock of the United Kingdom agreed and underscored the central role to be played by the United Nations in the global fight against terrorism. That role was enhanced following new measures adopted by the Council in the wake of the September 11 attacks September 11 attacks Series of airline hijackings and suicide bombings against U.S. targets perpetrated by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda. against the United States. "The reaction to stop the potential of future terrorism or actual terrorists who may do future acts has to be globally coordinated, or else terrorism migrates to where it is safer for them to be", he observed. |
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