Vladimir Voronin calls on UN member states to step up counter-terrorism effort

Moldova’s president Vladimir Voronin appealed to the heads of states and governments of the United Nations to step up efforts to combat international terrorism, Info-Prim Neo reports. In an appeal, the president says that a final document that includes the objectives and tasks designed to meet the challenges of the new millennium was adopted at the High-Level Meeting of September 2005. By virtue of the United Nations’ primordial commitment to maintain peace, this principled decision constituted the expression of the joint acknowledgement of the globalisation of risks and threats posed by the international terrorism to the international security and stability, the fight against terrorism becoming thus one of the UN’s priorities, the head of state said. The moment has come when the creation of favourable conditions for adopting the most important instrument for combating terrorism, which was agreed during the 2005 Summit, depends mostly on the high responsibility of the heads of states that are members of the UN and on the political will of all the member states, the appeal launched by Vladimir Voronin says. According to him, the current session of the UN General Assembly offers a good occasion to reach a consensus on the draft Convention and to complete it. In this connection, Vladimir Voronin called on the UN member states to use this opportunity and to entrust the delegations to the UN with the task to take all the measures necessary to finalise and adopt the General Convention on International Terrorism at the current session of the UN General Assembly. Moldova, as president of the sixth Commission of the UN General Assembly, will be making every effort to attain this major objective of common interest, the appeal says.