Brunei Vows To Back Global War Against Trans-National Crimes

Bandar Seri Begawan – Brunei has vowed continuous support towards regional and international efforts against terrorism.

It will do so through international bodies like the Asean Regional Forum (ARF), the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) and the United Nations in the fight.

This was the continuing pledge Brunei has made at the end of the Fourth Asean Ministerial Meeting on Trans-national Crime in Bangkok recently.

Dato Haji Dani, Permanent Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office, highlighted that Brunei had agreed to participate in two international resolutions that were agreed upon at the Bangkok meeting, namely, the agreement on information exchange and establishment of communication procedures and the international convention for the suppression of the financing of terrorism.

At the same time, a national committee on trans-national crime was also set up to coordinate this operation.

The Permanent Secretary pointed out that Asean and its plus three members, China, Japan and South Korea, all agreed to strengthen their cooperation to counter eight categories of trans-national crimes such as terrorism, drugs, smuggling, human trafficking, especially women and children, piracy, arms smuggling, money laundering, trans-national financial crimes and cyber crimes.

He added that Asean was also well on the way towards establishing the Asean security community that had been agreed upon during the 9th Asean Summit in Bali last October 2003. -- Courtesy of Radio Television Brunei 

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