Vienna: Qatar has affirmed that criminal challenges being faced today have become borderless such as terrorism, drugs, psychotropic substances, money laundering, smuggling of migrants, crimes against the environment, trade of human organs, cybercrime and trafficking of peoples’ cultural property, among others.
Qatar also stressed that whatever strict and firm national policies to fight crimes, they remain incomplete if not accompanied by regional and international cooperation and coordination based on shared responsibility and common interest. It asserted that international and regional cooperation and joint efforts to develop approaches and tools are suitable to reduce the risk of these crimes which had become a major impediment to economic growth and a direct threat to social peace in the recent years.
This came in remarks by Major General Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Al Maal, Legal Adviser to the Minister of Interior, at the seventh session of the conference of the parties to the UN convention against transnational organised crime in Vienna yesterday.
Major General Al Maal said the conference provides a unique opportunity to review joint efforts to implement the convention as a framework for common international action to eliminate the scourge of organised crime, which kills societies and impedes development. QNA
