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News From Non-Aligned World
NAM Supports the Implementation
of the United Nations Global
Counter-Terrorism Strategy
By IINS Research Team
Non-Aligned Movement has acknowledged the grave
threats to security and human rights posed by terrorism
and recognises that terrorist acts constitute a flagrant
violation of international law, including international
humanitarian and human rights law, in particular, the
right to life, leading to the lack of the full enjoyment of
human rights and fundamental freedoms of peoples.
Such acts endanger the territorial integrity and stability
of States as well as national, regional and international
security, destabilise legitimately constituted
governments or the prevailing constitutional order and
political unity of States, affect the stability of nations
and the very basis of societies, create adverse
consequences on the economic and social development
and cause the destruction of the physical and economic
infrastructure of State. The Movement has affirmed the
need to take speedy and effective measures to eliminate
international terrorism.
NAM is firm in its conviction that multilateral
cooperation under the UN auspices is the most effective
means to combat international terrorism. As such, the
Movement has called for a transparent, comprehensive
and balanced implementation of the United Nations
Global Counter Terrorism Strategy. The UN Global
Counter Terrorism Strategy was adopted by the UN
General Assembly on 8 September 2006. The Global
Counter-Terrorism Strategy consists of four pillars:
Addressing the conditions conducive to the spread of
terrorism; Measures to prevent and combat terrorism;
Measures to build states’ capacity to prevent and combat
terrorism and to strengthen the role of the United
Nations system in that regard; and Measures to ensure
respect for human rights for all and the rule of law as
the fundamental basis for the fight against terrorism.
UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy calls on the state
to take urgent action to prevent and combat terrorism
in all its forms and manifestations and To consider
becoming parties without delay to the existing
international conventions and protocols against
terrorism, and implementing them, and to make every
effort to reach an agreement on and conclude a
comprehensive convention on international terrorism.
Through the UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy, UN
Member States have also resolved to implement all
General Assembly resolutions on measures to eliminate
international terrorism, and the protection of human
rights and fundamental freedoms while countering
terrorism, and also to implement all Security Council
resolutions related to international terrorism and to
cooperate fully with the counter-terrorism subsidiary
bodies of the Security Council in the fulfilment of their
task. NAM Member States have been actively supporting
the UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy. At the 17th
Summit of NAM, Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari
remarked that it was imperative for the Non-Aligned
Movement to galvanize the international community to
strengthen the international legal framework to address
this menace, including by adopting the draft
Comprehensive UN Convention on Terrorism, to ensure
the closest cooperation amongst the international
community to counter the scourge of terror. In this
context, the Indian Vice President called on for ensuring
that all existing structures that are the building blocks
of UN’s Global Counter Terrorism Strategy function in a
non-partisan and professional manner.
A number of regional groupings that comprise of NAM
Member States have shown full commitment for the
implementation of the UN Global Counter Terrorism
Strategy. CARICOM (Caribbean Community) member
States have been involved with the Caribbean Financial
Action Task Force, an organization of 27 States and
territories in the Caribbean Basin committed to
implementing measures to prevent terrorism, to
prosecute terrorists and strengthen the international
capacity of States, especially small States, to effectively
combat international terrorism. In a similar vein, African
Union has emphasised the importance of cooperation
with other delegations on the United Nations Global
Counter-Terrorism Strategy and to reach consensus on
the draft convention.
NAM has called for the enhanced engagement of all
States in the work of the Counter-Terrorism
Implementation Task Force, and support any initiatives
by NAM Members States aimed at enhancing the effective
implementation in a manner that would advance the
principled position of the Non-Aligned Movement in
fighting the scourge of terrorism.
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