OSCE organizes regional conference on countering terrorist financing
By Trend
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
is holding a high-level regional conference on countering terrorist
financing and organized crime in Ashgabat on April 17-18,
Trend reports with reference to OSCE and Turkmenistani
media.
The conference is attended by high-level and senior representatives
of Central Asian countries and other OSCE participating States,
experts from international organizations including United Nations
Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (UNCTED),
INTERPOL and specialists from Western Union (WU), Facebook and
other interested organizations.
The two-day conference is organized by the OSCE Center in
Ashgabat, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) and the
Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental
Activities (OCEEA), in co-operation with the Foreign Affairs
Ministry and the Finance and Economy Ministry of Turkmenistan.
“Attacks around the world demonstrate that terrorist groups are
still in a position to access financial resources,” said OSCE
Secretary General Thomas Greminger.
He said that building the capacity of financial oversight and regulatory systems, as well as of prosecutorial and judicial authorities, is tremendously important.
The conference is aimed at fostering regional co-operation among Central Asian States in addressing this serious challenge to security and exploring potential links with organized crime through discussions and exchange of good practices related to countering terrorist financing and misuse of new internet technologies by organized crime.
“We must do more to detect and suppress terrorist financing channels,” Lukas Parizek, Slovak OSCE Chairmanship Special Representative and State Secretary, said. “Terrorist groups are proven adepts at exploiting the Internet and social media platforms for networking and raising funds. We need to develop more effective ways to prevent and counter the misuse of the Internet by terrorists, while respecting fundamental rights and freedoms.”
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