DR fights terrorism

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Interior and Police Minister Franklin Almeyda has announced that the DR, together with 14 other Caribbean countries, is preparing a common judicial framework for fighting terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering. Almeyda made his comments during the Ministers' Conference against Terrorism and Crime, which is being held at Santo Domingo's Hotel InterContinental V Centenario and ends on Thursday. Ministers from Barbados, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Haiti, Jamaica, Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, and Trinidad and Tobago are taking part in the conference. INTERPOL representatives are also present as well as representatives from the US, Canada and UN security experts. Almeyda said that during last week's Drug Summit the participating nations proposed an agreement of this sort so that the region doesn't become a haven for international criminals. Almeyda, quoted in Hoy, says that the DR lacks laws for trying terrorist suspects. United Nations official Mauro Miedico said that the world has seen an increase in terrorism in the last 10 years and that this highlights the importance of UN resolutions 1267 and 1373. These resolutions state that any act of terrorism is a threat to international peace and security.

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