UN President and UN Under-Secretary-General discuss counter-terrorism measures

4 сентября 2019

The Head of State and the UN Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov spoke about countering terrorist threats. As  Alexander Lukashenko noted, even nuclear weapons is not so dangerous in comparison with "digital" capabilities of terrorist groups. Today there are approximately 30 thousand extremist websites in the world, through the “darknet”, which is not regulated by law, the criminals sell weapons, heavy armored vehicles and even people. And joint action must be taken in order to stop the 21st century plague fr om spreading. In turn, Vladimir Voronkov thanked Alexander Lukashenko for such an important and strong signal to the international community. The diplomat  highly appreciated the speech of the President during the opening of the international conference on the fight against terrorism the day before.

Today, the President also had a working meeting with the Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Stanislav Zas. Among the topics discussed there was work of law enforcement agencies after a recent meeting at the Independence Palace, the outcome of a visit to Warsaw, wh ere negotiations between the secretaries of the security councils of Poland, Ukraine and Belarus and the US National Security Adviser were held.