Measures To Eliminate International Terrorism
Terrorism has been an international nuisance for an extremely long time. Terrorism has been used
to express political and religious beliefs, in retaliation for certain wrongdoing, and in other cases for the
specific purposes of intimidating and injuring people. Nearly all nations are and have been effected by
terrorism in one way or another. Some nations have been victimized others have actually been sponsors
and the majority has seen their citizens stricken with the that they cannot be protected by their government
from terrorism. Seeing as how one of the United Nation's many goals is to protect innocent citizens, the
United Nations has made many attempts to lesson, if not eradicate, the problems posed by international
terrorism. One of the most important measures taken by the United Nations took place in 1994 with the
passing of the Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism. Another measure, equally
important and even more recent, took place in 1997 when the General Assembly adopted Resolution52/164,
The International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings. Both of these measures planned
strong action while keeping in mind the sovereignty of the nations involved and along with the passing of
Security Council resolution 1269 which "unequivocally condemns all acts, methods and practices of
terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable regardless of their motivation," have taken great strides in the fight
In our over forty years as a United Nations member, including two stints as a non-permanent
member of the Security Council, Austria has made attempts to aide in the eradication of international
terrorism. In our nations opinion, terrorism is unacceptable and actions must be taken in order to protect
current, as well as, future generations. However, these actions mus
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