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159294
Tue, 02/08/2011 - 09:58
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U.S. homeland security secretary underscores USA's commitment to work with Turkey on global supply chain security
WASHINGTON (A.A) - The secretary of the Homeland Security Department of the United States said on Monday that her country was committed to cooperate with Turkey in order to improve the security of the global supply chain.
Turkish State Minister Hayati Yazici met with Secretary Janet Napolitano of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as part of his talks in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
Releasing a statement on the meeting, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the increasing collaboration between the United States and Turkey to combat terrorism and other transnational crimes had been on the agenda of the gathering.
"During the meeting, Secretary Napolitano underscored the Obama administration's commitment to working closely with Turkey to strengthen the security of the global supply chain," the statement noted.
The statement said that Napolitano had also highlighted Turkey's participation in "Project Global Shield", an international initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the World Customs Organization (WCO), the U.N. Office on Drugs & Crime and Interpol in 2010 to interdict precursor chemicals used in building improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Under Project Global Shield, more than 60 participating countries are currently sharing information with each other to ensure that chemicals entering their countries are being used in safe and legal ways, leading to successful interdictions of a number of suspicious shipments and providing promising investigative leads on the smuggling of precursor chemicals into Afghanistan and Pakistan, the statement added.
Turkish State Minister Hayati Yazici met with Secretary Janet Napolitano of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as part of his talks in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
Releasing a statement on the meeting, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the increasing collaboration between the United States and Turkey to combat terrorism and other transnational crimes had been on the agenda of the gathering.
"During the meeting, Secretary Napolitano underscored the Obama administration's commitment to working closely with Turkey to strengthen the security of the global supply chain," the statement noted.
The statement said that Napolitano had also highlighted Turkey's participation in "Project Global Shield", an international initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the World Customs Organization (WCO), the U.N. Office on Drugs & Crime and Interpol in 2010 to interdict precursor chemicals used in building improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Under Project Global Shield, more than 60 participating countries are currently sharing information with each other to ensure that chemicals entering their countries are being used in safe and legal ways, leading to successful interdictions of a number of suspicious shipments and providing promising investigative leads on the smuggling of precursor chemicals into Afghanistan and Pakistan, the statement added.
