China News Service, United Nations, June 29. Ambassador Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, said at the second high-level meeting of heads of counter-terrorism agencies of UN member states on the 29th that the international community should focus on the new crown pneumonia epidemic and counter-terrorism "double standards". New challenges brought by new technologies, fostering a sense of a community with a shared future, and strengthening international anti-terrorism cooperation.
Zhang Jun said that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the "September 11" incident and the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
Although important progress has been made in international anti-terrorism cooperation, the world still faces the real threat of terrorism.
He said that all countries should adhere to true multilateralism, be committed to defending the international system with the United Nations as the core, defending the international order based on international law, and supporting the United Nations to play a coordinating role in the global anti-terrorism field.
The Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee, the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, and the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office should strengthen coordination, focus on preventing terrorist organizations from using the epidemic to instigate and carry out terrorist activities, and strive to solve outstanding problems such as cyber terrorism, extremism, and terrorist financing, and form a joint effort.
Zhang Jun said that anti-terrorism must pay attention to prevention, starting with eliminating the root causes of terrorism and addressing both the symptoms and the root causes.
We must attach importance to advancing the political process to resolve regional conflicts, and through economic and social development, to achieve poverty reduction and alleviation of poverty, eliminate social unrest, and comprehensively adopt political, economic, judicial and other comprehensive measures to eradicate the breeding ground for terrorism and extremism.
Countries can strengthen experience exchanges on preventive counter-terrorism and de-radicalization measures such as vocational education and training, community corrections, etc., to enhance the effectiveness of counter-terrorism prevention actions.
Zhang Jun emphasized that the international community must oppose double standards and abandon selective anti-terrorism issues.
Terrorists are no good or bad.
All countries should put aside geopolitical considerations and ideological prejudices, combat all forms of terrorism, strengthen intelligence sharing and judicial cooperation, and strictly implement relevant Security Council resolutions.
For terrorist organizations and individuals identified by the Security Council, all countries are obliged to implement the requirements of Security Council resolutions and strictly enforce relevant sanctions.
Zhang Jun pointed out that strengthening capacity building is the key to effectively responding to new trends in terrorism.
In response to the trend of increasing use of new technologies by terrorist organizations, we must implement comprehensive policies to resolutely prevent new technologies from being abused by terrorist organizations from the legislative, judicial, and law enforcement levels. At the same time, we must also use new technologies and new tools to accurately and effectively combat terrorist activities.
It is hoped that the United Nations counter-terrorism agency will focus on capacity-building projects such as combating cyber terrorism, especially helping frontier countries in counter-terrorism to improve their counter-terrorism capabilities and de-radicalization capabilities, and consolidate every chain of the counter-terrorism front.
Zhang Jun said that China will continue to support the work of the United Nations counter-terrorism agency, and is willing to work with other countries to build consensus on counter-terrorism, strengthen coordination of actions, and promote counter-terrorism cooperation in the right direction in response to the new trends and characteristics of terrorism, and safeguard the common denominator of mankind. future. (Finish)