Ukraine will specifically concentrate on fight against terrorism – Foreign Ministry
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has condemned terrorist acts, which have recently shaken a series of countries, and said that Ukraine in its capacity of the non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council intends to take measures to step up international efforts in the fight against terrorism.
"Ukraine will take measures to step up efforts of the international community in a systematic fight against terrorist threat. As a UN Security Council non-permanent member, Ukraine will attend to this matter specifically. We will welcome and support any efforts directed at a comprehensive and systemic counteraction to this phenomena and threats to the international world and security, which were brought about by terrorist attacks and by financing of terrorism, as well as at the prosecution and punishment of persons responsible for these crimes," Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said in a statement circulated by the agency's press service on Thursday.
The Foreign Ministry pointed to the special importance that the efficacy of efforts on the international and national levels has in order to prevent and combat funding of terrorist activities and organizations, as well as on inevitable prosecution and punishment of individuals or organizations that provide such funding in any forms and by any means.
"Engagement in a real and not declarative cooperation among the states and mutual assistance of law enforcers to prevent crimes of terrorism funding are the keys to overcome this phenomena. Any sponsorship of these crimes by state agencies or officials should entail international responsibility of states for financing terrorism," the statement said.
The Foreign Ministry also strongly condemns a series of brutal terrorist attacks which in recent days have killed and injured people, namely in Turkey, Cameroon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Indonesia.