Panel Urges UN To Create
Agency To Fight
Terrorism
UNITED NATIONS: A
Swiss-led panel of five
governments, including
Costa Rica, is
proposing that the
United Nations consider
establishing a new
agency or program to
coordinate global
efforts against
terrorism.
Ambassadors from Costa
Rica, Japan, Slovakia,
Switzerland and Turkey
recommend that the U.N.
help nations' key
counterterrorism
officials adopt new
standards for
cooperating while better
protecting human rights.
The panel, launched by
the Swiss U.N. mission
in November, calls for
global involvement far
beyond the U.S.-led "war
on terror" and efforts
of the 15-nation U.N.
Security Council.
Swiss U.N. Ambassador
Peter Maurer told The
Associated Press the
U.N. should "rebalance
the focus away from the
'war on terror' to a
more comprehensive way"
of combatting terrorism. |
