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EUROPEAN INTERIOR MINISTERS DEBATE ANTI-TERRORISM AND ORGANISED CRIME MEASURES

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Interior Ministers from Council of Europe member states are to meet in Warsaw for a conference reviewing new measures at European level to combat terrorism and organised crime (17 and 18 March).

Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis will open the conference on Thursday 17 March.

The ministers will discuss new European standards and more efficient practical measures for the fight against terrorism and organised crime. They will focus on special investigative techniques, the protection of witnesses, controlling money laundering and the financing of terrorism, and the prevention of terrorism and serious crime.

Drafts of two new conventions and three recommendations will be on the table. These have been drawn up by experts to stop terrorism and other forms of serious crime in the early, preparative stages. Among these is the draft convention on the prevention of terrorism which will soon be finalised, and which proposes criminalising preparatory acts such as: public provocation of terrorism, recruitment and training.