Tunis hosts Arab meeting on fighting terrorism

The secretary general of the council of the Arab ministers of the interior, Ahmad Bin Muhammad al-Salem, opened on Tunis on Wednesday deliberations of the second Arab conference on fighting terrorism.

In an inaugural speech, al-Salem outlined the achievements attained in the area of fighting terrorism. He added that the council carried out practical steps that are based on the provisions of the 1998 Arab agreement on combating terrorism which took the Arab League charter into serious consideration.

The chairman of the conference, Brig. Fakhri Iskander, commended the success achieved by joint Arab action in fighting terrorism.

The participants in the conference discussed an Arab draft bill that would provide for using the best ways to battle terrorism and find a unified and legal viewpoint on the pressing issue.

Another bill on arms and explosives will also be debated.