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International Response: Security Council Moves To Enhance Counterterrorism Cooperation At a special meeting yesterday of the U.N. Counterterrorism Committee, some 60 international, regional and subregional organizations agreed to share more information to avoid overlap in efforts against terrorists (see GSN, Feb. 21). At the end of the one-day meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York, the group issued a joint statement saying it had agreed that “all invited organizations had a specific role to play in enhancing the effectiveness of global action against terrorism,” with participants recognizing the “high value” of international intelligence cooperation. Organizations at the meeting included the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the League of Arab States, the European Union, the Organization of American States, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Interpol (U.N. release, March 6). U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, in a statement to the committee, stressed the threat of terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction and urged members to follow through with counterterrorism cooperation. “We all have a stake in this struggle, and we must all feel that we are part of it,” Annan said (U.N. release, March 7).
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