SR II. Criminalising the financing of terrorism and associated money laundering

Egypt was actively combating corruption and money laundering and was working to recover the proceeds of crime and return them to the rightful owners.

His Government strongly supported the United Nations International Drug Control Programme and was participating in initiatives undertaken by the GUUAM group to combat drug trafficking and trafficking in persons, organized crime, money laundering and trafficking in firearms.

Requirements were also lower than anticipated under maintenance services for laundry, catering, waste disposal and for perimeter fencing and gates.

International cooperation must be improved so as to counter the trend towards international consolidation of crime, drug trafficking, terrorism, trafficking of firearms, money laundering and corruption.

South America s southern cone especially Argentina and Chile has not been immune to the vast expansion of organized crime, money laundering, and demand for narcotics elsewhere in the region.

The Provisional Government of Haiti had spared no effort to respond appropriately to the challenge. It had taken political and administrative measures to strengthen the National Police, reform the administration of justice and fight corruption, drug trafficking, money laundering and trafficking in persons.

Now these things are an essential part of the money laundering parade, and if you want to do something about illegal tax evasion and transnational organized crime, money laundering, you have to get rid of them.

President Uribe s democratic security policy had been the most successful one applied in recent years to strengthen the rule of law and fight against the production and trafficking of drugs, which promoted violence, terrorism, arms trafficking and money laundering.

Now, until 9 11, the bulk of all this money flew into the U.S. economy because the bulk of the money was denominated in U.S. dollars and the money laundering was taking place inside the United States.

Moreover, it has emerged that some members of the security and armed forces are associated with or otherwise involved in such illicit activities as smuggling of arms, drugs and natural resources, human trafficking, extortion at roadblocks and money laundering.

However, the Convention did not fully cover such critical matters as bank secrecy, money laundering, incorporation of companies in so called tax havens and extradition of offenders, nor did it require countries to set up mechanisms improve cooperation and mutual assistance.

Over the past few months, the EU s rule of law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, has begun doing what the UN could have and should have done long ago investigating top local Albanian officials and their involvement in bribery and money laundering, as well as their ties to organized crime.

With regard to terrorism, he said that several resolutions had been adopted at the meeting of Ministers of the Interior of the Gulf Cooperation Council, held recently in Kuwait, to strengthen coordination of security measures and cooperation in the fight against organized crime, the fight against drugs, illicit transboundary trafficking and money laundering.