Russia hopes UN Counter-Terrorism Office will be shaped soon - Lavrov

KRASNODAR, October 4. /TASS/. Moscow hopes that the new UN Counter-Terrorism Office will be shaped in the near future, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday. "It is good that everyone has recognized the important event. A new position of counter-terrorism coordinator has been created at the UN. It has been taken up by Russian diplomat Vladimir Voronkov who is UN Under-Secretary-General," he said on the sidelines of the 16th conference of the heads of special services, security bodies and law-enforcement agencies in Krasnodar in southern Russia. "We proceed from the assumption that this new counter-terrorism office will be shaped in the near future. It was established just recently, to be more precise, two weeks ago." According to the minister, contacts with the UN are very important. "This is the most legitimate universal agency, with a ramified structure of mechanisms to suppress terrorist manifestations and coordinate efforts in this area created within it," he emphasized. "It is not for nothing that UN representatives always take part in the meetings held by Russia’s Federal Security Service (the FSB). Similarly, FSB representatives visit New York after each such meeting delivering reports on the results, the main conclusions drawn by the participants in these events at the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee." Read more