UN calls involve society in combating jihadist terrorism – Terra Peru

The Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Security Council of the United Nations, Jean-Paul Laborde, asked today in Madrid the involvement of victims and society in combating jihadist terrorism.

Laborde was speaking at a break in the meeting that body held today and tomorrow in Madrid to address measures to curb the flow of foreign terrorist fighters into areas of conflict among 25,000 to 30,000 today- and he explained that combating terrorism also “creativity, international cooperation and prevention” is required.

Some four experts from seventy countries, spread across different working groups discussed today that flow from three focuses: detection and recruitment, preventing travel of those fighters, and prosecution and rehabilitation returnees, ie, the before, during and after.

It was Laborde and Spanish Secretaries of State for Security, Francisco Martinez, and Foreign Affairs, Ignacio Ybáñez, managers today inaugurated the sessions, which will continue tomorrow with the full Committee against Terrorism, subsequent meeting of Ministers of Interior and Foreign attending the summit and the final declaration.

After the inauguration, Laborde told reporters that the phenomenon of jihadi terrorism is “faster and smoother than previous” requires “more creativity” and needs international cooperation, not only in the field operating, but also criminal under the “rule of law”.

But that, as happened in Spain against ETA, involved “completely” society and the victims of terror, among other things, to safeguard future generations.

Laborde appealed to the unity of the international community in this fight because jihadist terrorism “affecting Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Asia … everyone,” he said .

Meanwhile, the Spanish Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martinez, said that the fight against jihadist terrorism court, and particularly against the militants who travel to conflict zone is a priority to the Spanish Government and to the entire international community.

Spain would give the UN the “maximum assistance” so that the experts can put on the table the issues of “radicalization chain, from which an individual decides to start to become a fan end a terrorist and become a lone wolf, “Martinez said.

“enormously complex” chain in the process of radicalization is “faster” with more people deciding to move.

So, he said Francisco Martinez, terrorism must be addressed with a global perspective, with an “extremely close international cooperation and tools to act in the operating field and police, but also to prevent radicalization before.”

And all this “with a decisive involvement of civil society,” he said.

The Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Ignacio Ybáñez, meanwhile, also underscored the priority that the Government supposed fight against Jihadist terrorism and will remain so in the two years of work of Spain will chair the Security Council of the UN in October this year.

Ybáñez thanked UN chose Madrid as “the capital of the fight against terrorism” and referred to the day tomorrow as the “most important” because in it the strategies to be decided.