Algeria calls for International Conference to define terrorism and how it should be eradicated

Algerian state Minister of the Interior and local assemblies, Tayeb Belaiz, has called for the convening of a broad-based international conference, under the auspices of the United Nations, to made a deep perusal of the nefarious phenomenon of terrorism in all its aspects, while providing adequate solutions by addressing its real causes and motivations and pinpointing the underlying sources of terrorism financing.

Mr Tayeb Belaiz highlighted in his speech during the opening Wednesday of the 32rd session of the Arab Interior Ministers Council at the conference hall of the Palace of the Nations in Algiers, the need for the early drafting of an International Convention to know precisely the whys and wherefores of the phenomenon of terrorism and how best it could be stamped out.

Mr Tayeb Belaiz also pleaded for a consolidation of the joint Arab security strategy to “allow the Arab countries to successfully cope with the dangers threatening them.”

“The current situation places us, as Arab countries, without exception, before major security challenges which require from our Council (of Arab Interior ministers) to work for the consolidation of the joint security strategy, through the strengthening of its bases,  so that to allow to our countries to face, with determination and responsibility, the spread of transnational terrorism and all the forms of organized crime,” asserted Mr Belaiz at the opening of the 32dr Arab Interior Ministers Council.

For the State minister, also chairman of the 32nd session, it is up to the Council to make a “precise diagnosis” of all the dangers and threats to the joint security of the Arab countries, so that to “establish a long-term, integrated and homogenous vision conducive to an efficient Arab security cooperation, in harmony with the national and international efforts.”

It also up to the Council, he added, as part of the enforcement of this security strategy, to boost and to streamline efforts in terms of exchanging information, data and analyses on everything concerning the criminal groups.

The Arab security strategy must, according to Mr Belaiz, “become a reality through the working out of bilateral and multilateral joint operational action-plans that allow for tightening the noose around criminal groups by drastically lessening their movement capacities, especially across the borders.”