Cairo Interpol conference discuss cooperation in fighting crime
Egyptian Minister of the Interior Lt Gen. Habib al-Adli on Thursday opened the 67th session of the general assembly of the International criminal police organization, Interpol, with the participation of representatives of 150 countries to discuss means of fighting all types of crimes which require international cooperation, especially terrorism, drug trafficking, organized terrorism and money laundering.
The Egyptian authorities said that convening the conference in Cairo for 6 days, with the participation of some 500 persons is an important evidence which stresses the confidence placed by the international community in the stable security conditions in Egypt, one year after the Luxor attack.
In his inaugural speech at the conference, al-Adli concentrated on the issue of terrorism when he said: "Terrorism has become a grave threat to human rights and to people's interests, for values of democratic societies and their political systems."
He added that terrorism has become the "gravest obstacles to stability and development." And that it "threatens the march of human civilization and misunderstands the divine religion and moral values."
For his part, chairman of the Japanese delegation, whose country presides over the conference's current session, asserted the need to increase technical and technological cooperation between member states in order to fight crime.
He underlined the importance of discussing Interpol's strategy in the next century.
Egyptian Minister of the Interior Lt Gen. Habib al-Adli stated that the hesitation in confronting terrorism became impossible to ignore and neglecting organized crime is very grave matter, pointing out that this has encouraged president Hosni Mubarak to call for an international summit conference under the auspices of United Nation for codification the methods of international community to fight terrorism.
Meanwhile, the secretary general of Arab interior ministers' council Dr. Ahmed Ben Mohammed Salem said: he has been sure more than one time of the fact that Arab nation adheres to achieve just, comprehensive and permanent peace in ME region, established on the basis of giving the Palestinians their rights and establishing their state. He emphasized the necessity to differentiate between terrorism - that should be combated and condemned - and the right of people to engage in legal armed struggle for liberating their lands and restoring it usurped rights.