Chinese Ambassador to the UN Wang Guangya, called on Tuesday for
joint effort by the international community to fight terrorism
without any bias.
The Security Council met Tuesday to hear briefings by the
Chairmen of the three anti-terrorism committees. Addressing the
other 14 members of the Security Council, Wang said terrorism
continues to wreak havoc in various parts of the world.
"Numerous innocent civilians, including Chinese citizens, were
deprived of their right to life in a most cruel manner," he noted,
stressing that the threat of terrorism is ever present and no
country can hope to remain unaffected by minding its own
business.
"If one pays attention only to combating terrorist individuals
or entities endangering one's own country but turns a deaf ear to
legitimate demands of other countries, or even sets up blocks to
other countries' efforts; if one is only focused on combating
individuals or entities currently engaged in plotting terrorist
attacks but shows leniency to, even deliberately shields terrorist
forces which lie low and conceal their true color, then there is
little hope that international anti-terrorism cooperation can
develop smoothly and continue in the future," he observed.
He pointed out that only when countries regard terrorist forces
threatening other countries as their own enemy and joint hands with
other countries in effectively combating such terrorist forces can
there be no lacuna in international struggle against terrorism and
can there be hope that this scourge of mankind will finally be
eliminated.
He reiterated that resolutely fighting terrorism in all its
forms and manifestations is both the common obligation of all
countries and the basis for the Security Council on which to deepen
counter-terrorism cooperation.
"China will continue to take an active and constructive approach
in pushing for genuine and effective implementation of the relevant
Security Council resolution," he concluded.
(Xinhua News Agency February 22, 2006)
