Multilateralism, full international cooperation and donor aid for poorer countries to develop the needed capacity are vital if the war on terrorism is to have any chance of success, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday in Madrid, a day after launching a major five-point United Nations strategy to combat the scourge.
– Governments need to share information, work together – their police forces, intelligence – and without that cooperation, without that effective attempt to work together, we will not be able to contain terrorism or defeat them, he declared in the Spanish capital, which was marking the first anniversary of a terrorist attack on railways that killed nearly 200 people and injured 2.000 others.
In a keynote address Thursday to the closing plenary of the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security, Mr. Annan outlined what he called the “five D’s” strategy:
1) dissuading the disaffected from choosing terrorism,
2) denying terrorists the means to carry out attacks,
3) deterring state support,
4) developing state preventive capacity and
5) defending human rights in the fight against the scourge.
Friday he again stressed the need for the world community to help fund poor countries that genuinely cannot afford to build the capacity needed to fight terrorism.
– If we are going to give technical assistance to developing countries and countries that need assistance to upgrade their legal system, I think we are going to need money, he said adding:
– That money will have to come from governments with capacity and donor countries. We will set up a trust fund to raise the necessary amount of money and I would urge governments to be generous and give willingly so we can all tackle this scourge.
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