The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy Review
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supports, facilitates or participates or attempts to participate in the financing,
planning or preparation of terrorist acts;
29. Urges Member States to provide full coordination and afford one another
the greatest measure of assistance, in accordance with their obligations under
international law, in criminal investigations or criminal proceedings relating to the
financing or support of terrorist acts, especially with those States where, or against
whose citizens, terrorist acts are committed, including obtaining evidence for the
proceedings involving terrorist organizations, terrorist entities or foreign terrorist
fighters, and recalls that all States must cooperate fully in the fight against terrorism
on the basis of mutual legal assistance and the principle of extradite or prosecute,
welcoming their efforts to elaborate on the existing extradition and mutual legal
assistance mechanisms;
30. Calls upon Member States to prevent refugee status from being abused by
the perpetrators, organizers or facilitators of terrorist acts, and also calls upon
Member States to take appropriate measures to ensure, before granting asylum, that
the asylum seeker has not planned, facilitated or participated in the commission of
terrorist acts, while reaffirming the importance of protecting refugees and asylum
seekers in accordance with States’ obligations under international law, in particular
international human rights law, refugee law and humanitarian law;
31. Urges Member States to ensure no tolerance for terrorism, regardless of
the targets or motives, and reaffirms its call to refrain from organizing, instigating,
facilitating, participating in, financing, encouraging or tolerating terrorist activities
and to take appropriate practical measures to ensure that their respective territories
are not used for terrorist installations or training camps or for the preparation or
organization of terrorist acts intended to be committed against other St ates or their
citizens;
32. Expresses concern over terrorist acts committed by lone terrorists in
various parts of the world, acknowledges the specific challenges created by lone
terrorists as they are difficult to detect, and recognizes the need to addre ss this issue
expeditiously;
33. Condemns the failure to take all feasible precautions to protect the civilian
population and civilian objects against the effects of attacks when using civilian
objects, in particular schools and hospitals, for military pu rposes such as launching
attacks and storing weapons, and strongly condemns the use of civilians to shield
military objectives from attacks;
34. Encourages Member States to consider better ways to cooperate to
exchange information, assist one another, prosecute those who use information and
communications technologies for terrorist purposes and implement other appropriate
cooperative measures to address such threats;
35. Expresses concern at the increasing use, in a globalized society, by
terrorists and their supporters, of information and communications technologies, in
particular the Internet and other media, and the use of such technologies to commit,
incite, recruit for, fund or plan terrorist acts, notes the importance of cooperation
among stakeholders in the implementation of the Strategy, including among Member
States, international, regional and subregional organizations, the private sector and
civil society, to address this issue, while respecting human rights and fundamental
freedoms and complying with international law and the purposes and principles of the
Charter, and reiterates that such technologies can be powerful tools in countering the
spread of terrorism, including by promoting tolerance and dialogue among peoples
and peace;
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