Permanent Representative of Belarus V.Rybakov meets Assistant Secretary-General of the UN M.Coninsx

20-07-2018

On July 19, 2018 the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the UN, Valentin Rybakov, met with the Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director of the Executive Directorate of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee, Michelle Koninx.

UN Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) was established in connection with the terrorist acts in the United States on September 11, 2001. The CTC consists of 15 Member States of the UN Security Council and monitors compliance with Security Council resolutions in the field of combating terrorism. In its activities, the CTC relies on the Executive Directorate, which carries out strategic decisions and conducts expert assessments of the situation in the UN Member States.

During the meeting, the sides discussed promising areas of cooperation between Belarus and the UN on the fight against terrorism, noted the positive experience of cooperation between our country and the CTC, in particular, holding of the joint side event on countering terrorism in cyberspace, which took place on the margins of the Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of the UN Member States.

Special attention was paid to the CTC review of Belarus' implementation of UN Security Council resolutions on countering terrorism and response to relevant recommendations of the CTC on the results of the review.

The interlocutors separately dwelt on the issues of organising and holding in Minsk on October 9-10 the international conference “Prevention and Countering Terrorism in the Digital Age”, including details of the participation of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee in it.

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