Heat to be turned up on rising terrorism<\/p>\n
UNITED NATIONS (AP): The UN Security Council is focusing the
\nspotlight on the increase in global terrorism, with a fresh call
\nfor international cooperation to prevent terrorist acts and to
\nbring perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n
Against a backdrop of recent bombings and killings from Russia
\nand Kosovo to East Timor and Burundi, the council is holding an
\nopen meeting on Tuesday to adopt a resolution renewing the UN
\ncommitment to combat terrorism.<\/p>\n
\"We thought that the recent upsurge in terrorist actions,
\nincluding against United Nations personnel, would warrant a
\nreiteration of the Security Council readiness to contribute to
\nthe fighting of international terrorism,\" Russia's UN Ambassador
\nSergey Lavrov, the current council president, said Monday.<\/p>\n
In recent months, the council has been trying to bring
\ninternational attention to critical issues as well as countries
\nin crisis. It has held open meetings on children in armed
\nconflict, civilians caught in fighting, and the proliferation of
\nsmall arms - a problem which Lavrov said also feeds terrorist
\nactions.<\/p>\n
The Security Council's meeting on terrorism follows its demand
\nlast Friday that Afghanistan's Taleban Islamic movement deliver
\nSaudi exile Osama bin Laden to stand trial in last year's twin
\nU.S. embassy bombings in Africa or face limited sanctions.<\/p>\n
The draft resolution which the 15-member council is expected
\nto adopt Tuesday doesn't call for sanctions, but instead focuses
\non the need for global cooperation to fight terrorism.<\/p>\n
It unequivocally condemns all terrorist acts as \"criminal and
\nunjustifiable regardless of their motivation\" and calls on all
\ncountries to adopt and implement all international treaties
\nagainst terrorism.<\/p>\n
It urges all nations to cooperate in combating terrorism, to
\nprevent the financing of terrorist activities, and to \"deny those
\nwho plan, finance or commit terrorist acts safe havens by
\nensuring their apprehension and prosecution or extradition.\"<\/p>\n
The open Security Council meeting is the latest in a series of
\nUN actions on terrorism.<\/p>\n
The General Assembly established a committee in December 1996
\nto consider international agreements aimed at combating terrorist
\nbombings and preventing nuclear materials from falling into
\nterrorist hands.<\/p>\n
In 1997, the General Assembly approved an international
\nconvention which obligates countries to extradite or prosecute
\nterrorist bombers. The committee is currently working on a treaty
\nagainst nuclear terrorism and a treaty that would make the
\nfinancing of terrorist activities a crime.<\/p>\n
Russia has called for a UN conference or a special session of
\nthe UN General Assembly in 2000 on combating terrorism.<\/p>\n
Moscow has become an especially vocal campaigner against
\nterrorism following four recent bombings in Russia, which killed
\nsome 300 people, and an escalation of the conflicts in Chechnya
\nand neighboring Dagestan. Russia blames the violence on Chechens
\nand other secessionist-minded Islamic militants.<\/p>\n
Terrorists have been making headlines elsewhere as well.
\nLast week, two UN aid workers were executed by Hutu rebels in
\nBurundi, a UN civilian official was beaten and shot to death in
\nKosovo, and seven UN workers were taken hostage in Georgia.<\/p>\n
Last month, Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka massacred about 50
\nvillagers, and pro-Indonesian militias went on a killing, looting
\nand burning rampage in East Timor after its people voted for
\nindependence. And leftist rebels in Colombia have stepped up a
\nwave of kidnappings.<\/p>\n
The draft council resolution expresses deep concern at \"the
\nincrease in acts of international terrorism which endangers the
\nlives and well-being of individuals worldwide as well as the
\npeace and security of all states.\"<\/p>",
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