Translation of "Counter-Terrorism Fusion Centre " (English → French) :

As foreseen in the European Agenda on Security 2015-2020 put forward by the European Commission, Europol's new European Counter Terrorism Centre was launched today.

12. Stresses that the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the EU and the LAS also agreed to continue work on the comprehensive implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy; supports the fact that they welcomed the establishment of the UN Counter-Terrorism Centre with the initiative of the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, and asked for support to be given to this centre, and that they welcomed the holding of the first international Conference on Combating Terrorism, in Baghdad in March 2014, as an opportunity to discuss and s ...[+++]eek appropriate means and ways to promote international cooperation and combat terrorism at regional level;

11. Stresses that the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the EU and the LAS also agreed to continue work on the comprehensive implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy; supports the fact that they welcomed the establishment of the UN Counter-Terrorism Centre with the initiative of the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, and asked for support to be given to this centre, and that they welcomed the holding of the first international Conference on Combating Terrorism, in Baghdad in March 2014, as an opportunity to discuss and s ...[+++]eek appropriate means and ways to promote international cooperation and combat terrorism at regional level;

18. Recalls that most of the Union’s external counter-terrorism measures and programmes are being developed and implemented under Article 5 of the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP), which entered into force on 1 January 2014; reminds that Article 10 of the IcSP regulation obliges the Commission to develop operational human rights guidance for projects related to the fight against terrorism; deeply deplores the fact that the Commission and the EEAS have failed to implemented Article 10 IcSP almost one year after the entry into force of the IcSP regulation ...[+++] (15 March 2014); expresses serious concerns about the absence of basic human rights safeguards in past IfS and present IcSP counter-terrorism projects with institutions such as the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT/CAERT) in Algiers and the Hedayah Centre of Excellence in Abu Dhabi;

5. Stresses that the Ministers also agreed to continue work on the comprehensive implementation of the UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy; supports the fact that they welcomed the establishment of the UN Counter-Terrorism Centre with the initiative of the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, and asked for supporting this centre, and that they welcomed the holding of the first international Conference on Combating Terrorism, in Baghdad in March 2014, as an opportunity to discuss and seek appropriate means and ways to promote international cooperation and combat terrorism at regional level;

As regards the relation between the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator and the Situation Centre, SitCen takes no part in the drawing up of EU counter-terrorism policy or in the coordination of work in the field of counter-terrorism carried out by the Council; nor does it monitor follow-up to the Council’s decisions.