UNITED NATIONS, Oct 6, (KUNA): Kuwait called on the international community in Doha, late Tuesday to step up efforts to disseminate tolerance and fight terrorism, but not to link terror to any religion.
Speaking at a UN General Assembly legal committee on international efforts against terrorism, Mohammad Al-Eteqi, a member of Kuwait’s permanent delegation at the UN, said: “Kuwait calls for concerted efforts to create a united front to fight terrorism and to boost the value of tolerance and peaceful coexistence among various civilizations.” He called for setting out strict rules to punish anyone who could mock heavenly religions or religious leaders and sanctities.

He said Kuwait is keen on spreading subtle human values among peoples and religions, and backing moderation as well as tackling the root causes of terrorism, especially those bearing on economic, social and political conditions.

The Kuwaiti diplomat also showed his country’s interest in reinforcing international cooperation in the fight against terrorism by means of coordination with regional and international security agencies.
Al-Eteqi reiterated Kuwait’s condemnation of all manifestations of terrorism regardless of its motives, billing it as a criminal act that cannot be justified or condoned by any religion.
Dismissing a link between terrorism and religions, he cautioned against the use of double standards in the fight against terrorism.

Meanwhile, participants at the 4th Arab conference for prosecution departments chiefs, public prosecutors, chiefs of investigation and public prosecution authorities called in Doha Tuesday for modernizing Arab judicial agreements of cooperation in light of the new kinds of crimes.

The Arab conference asserted in recommendations made at the close of its functions today that modernizing the judicial cooperation agreement will curb crimes with their increasing forms and wide-scale risks as there is no single country that can stand up to such gigantic task.
Further, the conference stressed the necessity of setting up a general technical secretariat for the heads of public prosecution departments under the umbrella of the Arab League.

It also called for the necessity of using state-of-the-art technology on communications among the Arab countries in order to boost the international cooperation in the judicial field in what helps facilitate the management of procedures of lawsuits through listening to a person living overseas, in his capacity as a witness or expert before the judiciary authorities of the country he is staying in.

The convenants also agreed on studying the fields of cooperation like the exchanging of data among the public prosecution departments and the departments investigating into incidents, acts and persons who might be the topic of legal pursuit or interrogation by a single country or more.