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Egypt Wants UN Resolution Banning Asylum for Terrorists
Egypt wants the United Nations to adopt a semi-binding resolution that would ban all countries from giving âsanctuary or political asylum to terrorists,â President Hosni Mubarak said here yesterday. Mubarak, speaking at a news conference with his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade, repeated a longstanding call for a UN-sponsored conference on terrorism, which he said should force countries to keep out terrorists. He stressed that âanti-terrorist operations under way in various regions could not definitively settleâ the problem. âWe must hold an international conference within the United Nations, which would adopt a semi-binding resolution or resolutions for all states to prevent them from granting sanctuary or political asylum to terrorists,â he said. âThat is one of the reasons why terrorism is thriving at the moment,â Mubarak said. Meanwhile, Wade said Egypt and Senegal were in âcomplete agreementâ on how to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli problem.Posted by: Fred 2004-03-22 |
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