APPF20/RES/06
Resolution on Combating Terrorism, Illicit Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime
APPF20/RES/06
(Co-Sponsored by Mexico and Russia)
THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC PARLIAMENTARY FORUM:
Reaffirming the previous resolutions adopted by the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) with respect to combating terrorism, drug trafficking and organized crime;
Reiterating its strong and unequivocal condemnation of terrorism which constitutes one of the most serious threats to regional and international peace and security;
Assuming that terrorism is aggravated by other international crimes, including illicit drug and arms trafficking, corruption, money laundering, cyber crime, human trafficking, kidnapping, piracy, which can be used as direct support to this scourge, in particular as a
funding source;
Concerned about the negative impacts that the activities of transnational organized crime present for the rule of law, peace and security, and social and economic sustainable development in long term in the countries of the region;
Recognizing that transnational criminal networks seek to coordinate with different types of local authorities, national and regional levels to commit crimes such as drug trafficking, arms smuggling, money laundering, human trafficking and kidnapping, among others;
Reaffirming the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy adopted on September 8, 2006, and striving for its comprehensive implementation in an integrated manner, including in the Asia-Pacific region;
Welcoming the launching of Global Counter-Terrorism Forum in New York, USA, on September 22, 2011, as a new platform of international anti-terrorist co-operation;
Welcoming the outcomes of the 9-th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Inter-Sessional Meeting on counteracting terrorism and transnational crime (Kuala-Lumpur, May 11, 2011) which displayed the eagerness of the ARF community to discuss the problems of countering
cyber-terrorism and facilitating cyber-security, attributing the leading role therein to Russia, Australia and Malaysia;
Taking into account the arrangement of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime on International Cooperation, 2010;
Noting the need to deepen the regional cooperation to prevent and eradicate the production, transport and sale of drugs in APPF member countries;
Calling for more active interfaith and cross-cultural dialogue in the context of civil society’s mobilization for fight against terrorism in all its manifestations;
Convinced of the importance of parliaments to further enhance national and international legislation aimed at combating terrorism and the growing threat of criminal organizations in a regional perspective;
Bearing in mind the necessity to strengthen regional counter-terrorist and counter-crime cooperation;
RESOLVES TO: