Counter-terrorism drive: Bahrain gets UN praise

TDT | Manama

Bahrain’s ongoing measures to enhance its Counter-Terrorism efforts in association with the UN Counter-Terrorism Office has received United Nation’s praise.

Describing Bahrain’s work as ‘pioneering and continuous”, the Undersecretary General of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office, Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov, thanked Bahrain for joining the initiatives of the UN Counter-Terrorism Office and combating financial terrorism acts.

Voronkov was speaking during the closing of the national virtual workshop, organised by the National Committee for Follow-up of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s commitment to all UN Security Council resolutions, headed by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for International Affairs, Dr Shaikh Abdulla bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.

The workshop, held from 6-7 May, in partnership with the UN Counter-Terrorism Office and the task force responsible to implement counter-terrorism, focused on building capacity to protect the non-profit sector from terror abuse.

Commenting, Dr Shaikh Abdulla bin Ahmed Al Khalifa stressed the Kingdom‘s keenness to enhance partnership with international organisations, namely the United Nations.

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for International Affairs highlighted that drying up the sources of terrorist financing is the main pillar of any strategy to combat terrorism, citing the issue of the (Iranian Future Bank) branch, which was a centre for financing terrorism and money laundering.

Over 100 members participated in the virtual workshop, which had the UN Resident Coordination as a participant in the opening and closing sessions.