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Latin American Ministers
Meet To Discuss Combat
Against Terrorism,
Organized Crime
Ministers of several
Latin American countries
Monday started a
four-day ministerial
meeting aimed at
fighting terrorism and
transnational organized
crime in Panama.
The representative of
terrorism prevention
branch of the United
Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime (UNODC), Mauro
Miedico, said that this
forum will serve to
coordinate legislation
and operative measures
in the fight against
terrorism and organized
crime.
"Terrorism and organized
crime have a phenomenon
that transcends the
borders of countries,
thus need to give common
response," Miedico said.
Miedico also warned that
corruption is a cancer
that can weaken the
ability of official
institutions to combat
drug trafficking,
gun-running and other
transnational crime.
"Terrorism can affect
everybody. No matter if
they are developed
nations or developing
ones, it is an invisible
enemy that causes losses
of lives and economy,"
Panamanian Vice Foreign
Minister Ricardo Duran
said.
Duran said the states
that face this kind of
threat have to modernize
their current
legislation under the
international norms to
make themselves meet
challenges of
transnational crime.
During the conference,
the Latin American
ministers and
prosecutors will discuss
human rights, police
cooperation, national
strategies, and the
prevention of funding
organized crime.
The first such
conference was held in
April 2006 and ended
with the Declaration of
Panama.
The regional forum
admitted two new
participants, Mexico and
Peru, this year.
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