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BUSEK: STABILITY PACT AT FOREFRONT
IN FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM
Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for
S.E. Europe Erhard Busek informed an OSCE meeting in Vienna
that the Pact - through its Working Table on Security
Issues - has been extremely active in fostering and coordinating
international action on combating terrorism in the region.
He also said that it has been vital in facing up organized
crime, illicit trafficking in human beings and small arms
and light weapons in the area. The Working Table of the
Pact has also been active in developing a regional approach
to capacity building in the area for an adequate training
of national police forces.
Busek highlighted the recently established Clearinghouse
on Small Arms and Light Weapons known by its acronym,
SEESAC, located in Belgrade, and other schemes of the
Pact as been prime examples in this field. Also, the work
being done by the Pact-affiliated Regional Crime Centre
for Combating Transnational Organized Crime, based in
Bucharest, has assisted in the investigation and prosecution
of several criminal elements operating in the wider S.E.
Europe. The Regional Crime Centre will be hosting soon
(next month) an extended workshop for South Eastern European
police and legal officials on developing a more coordinated
response to the threats of terrorists and terrorism.
The Stability Pact is currently working with the NATO
Secretariat, the European Commission and Council, and
with the OSCE Secretariat and its Conflict Prevention
Centre in developing a more comprehensive approach to
border security and management issues.
All this is to say, Busek concluded, that the Stability
Pact, is fully committed and active in this area, and
can fairly be judged one of the leading actors in the
field.
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In the photo: Erhard Busek
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