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Annan stresses global coalition and legitimacy for combating terrorism  |
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 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday that the United Nations must ensure that the fight against terrorism is fought in unison and won in a legitimate way.
In his statement at a meeting of the UN Security Council on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Annan said that the legitimacy that the United Nations conveys can ensure that the greatest number of states are able and willing to take the necessary and difficult steps -- diplomatic, legal and political, which are needed to defeat terrorism.
"Today, one year after the attacks, the importance of global legitimacy in the fight against terrorism has only grown," said Annan, urging the Security Council to strive even harder to ensure that the struggle ahead wins the widest possible support.
Annan said, "The past year has given us hope that terrorism can be defeated, if the international community summons the will to unite in broad coalition." The United Nations remains uniquely positioned to serve as the forum for this coalition and for the development of those steps that governments of various countries must now take, both separately and together, to combat terrorism on a global scale, he said.
He said the United Nations was founded to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, and "today the nations are united to defend humanity from a new kind of warfare."
Annan believed that no body has a more central role to play in meeting this challenge than the Security Council. Over the past year, the council has fulfilled this role with persistence, creativity and determination, showing by its actions how essential it is to defeat terrorism by building the broadest possible international coalition, according to the secretary-general.
Under a Security Council resolution aimed at targeting terrorists and those who harbor, aid or support them, which was adopted soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, UN member states have been cooperating in a wide range of areas -- from suppressing the financing of terrorism to providing early warning, cooperating in criminal investigations, and exchanging information.
Editor: Zhao Xuan
CCTV
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