The Counter-Terrorism Committee of the UN will meet next week in Madrid to address the phenomenon of foreign fighters and promote “international cooperation” against this threat, said its executive director.
Cooperation it is essential to “work against terrorist organizations with the same speed and ease” with which the same move, said Friday in Madrid Jean-Paul Laborde, executive director of the committee, under the Security Council of the UN.
Before this “new phenomenon, an exchange of information on best measures necessary” to fight against it, Laborde said before the meeting on Monday and Tuesday.
More than 200 Experts from some 70 countries and thirty ministers and deputy ministers of Interior and Foreign Affairs will participate in this meeting.
The work will focus on the detection, intervention and recruitment of combatants, avoiding travel by themselves and prosecution and rehabilitation of returnees, among other issues.
“The work has to be multifaceted,” said Laborde, for whom, with security measures, it is also necessary to know “the reasons why young people are attracted by DAESH (acronym of the Islamic State) and how to handle “this.
” We must fight against extremism, “the executive director of the Committee, which is formed by the fifteen members of the Security Council of the UN and is chaired by the Ambassador of Lithuania to the United Nations, Raimonda Murmokaité.
In this line, Laborde stressed the importance “of multicultural and inter-religious dialogue.”
The meeting of CTC occurs later than in September 2014 the Security Council adopted a resolution in which the Member States are asked to take measures to prevent the flow of these fighters.
There are an estimated 25,000 to 31,000 foreign fighters who have enrolled mainly in the ranks of EI from countries around the world.
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