Anti-terrorism symposium.

• Author: Taylor, Russell
• Position: Peace Watch - Brief Article

As the United Nations symposium on combating international terrorism 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) in fighting terrorism, noted Antonio Maria Costa, 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" between its work and that of ODCCP.

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