Participants at an international workshop on terrorism and terror funding have emphasized the need of legislation to curb the problem.
Participants also called for concerted efforts to combat terrorism , money laundering and organized crime through mutural cooperation at the international regional and bilateral levels.
Nine recommendations were issued at the three-day work -shop in Riyadh entittled ” the Workshop on International Legal Framework for counter Terrorism and its Financing.” The recommendations were agreed agter lenghty delebarations.
The concluding session was chaird by Sheikh Muhammad bin Fuhaid Al-Abdullah, chairman of the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution/
George Ihab, director of the Drug and Crime section at the UN office in Egypt, read out the recommendations.
Alexander Morai , an FBI agent attached to the US Embassy in Berlin , and the Michael Taxay from the Counterterrorism Section at the US Department of Justice also attended the workshop. Participants said there is a need for more similar workshops organized in collaboration with UN’s regional offices.
They added that there is also a need to adopt counterterrorism measures based on the UN charter to combat money loundering , terrorism and its financing.
While appreciating the efforts of Saudi Arabia , which is a signatory of various international agreements and treaties on counterterrorism, money loundering and related crimes, participants condemned terrorism in all forms.
They said that terrorism is no way related to a religion , ethnicity, nationality or group.
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