Xinhua Chinese News Agency
UNITED NATIONS, May 4 (Xinhua) — Morocco reiterated here Friday that the United Nations remains the appropriate and legitimate framework for member states to adopt multilateral responses to terrorism.
Youssef Amrani, a senior official from the Moroccan Foreign Ministry, made the statement as he was taking the floor at an open debate of the UN Security Council on “threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.”
“Despite all our efforts, terrorism remains a pressing challenge and one of the most serious threats to international peace and security,” he said. “The international efforts to combat terrorism are essential and they must continue with the same determination and commitment.”
“The Security Council, within its mandate of maintaining international peace and security, has taken important steps against terrorism and continues to strengthen the work of its counter-terrorism bodies through a number of additional resolutions,” he said.
“The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, adopted by the General Assembly in 2006, represents the most comprehensive and effective decision taken by the international community to eliminate this dangerous threat and improve United Nations action to this end,” he said.
Amrani also voiced his “deep concern” over the spread of terrorist activities in its neighboring sub-region, namely West Africa and the Sahel region, and in the Gulf of Guinea and in the Horn of Africa.
“Our continent has, in recent years, seen an increase in the frequent but also in the degree of sophistication of violent acts committed by terrorist networks,” he said. “Often striking in areas already faced with many socio-economic, environmental and food security challenges, as well as prolonged and unresolved conflicts, these terror activities have dramatically increased the number of innocent victims, undermined the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states and threatened regional stability as a whole.”
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