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Oduor

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  1. “We need to encourage and deepen existing informal cooperation and other arrangements among law enforcement agencies worldwide, including through the Interpol, financial intelligence units and other regional networks, which is crucial to achieving and sustaining formal cooperation. Finally, it would be remiss of me if I did not mention the important role played by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Counter-Terrorism Department in enhancing capacity in Kenya and in the region. Because of the them, we have been exposed and are able to ensure much better cooperation than before. Terrorism is a challenge that we all need to tackle in solidarity. No country can do it alone.”

    2016-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7831 (2016) · source

  2. “In conclusion, to achieve greater international judicial cooperation against terrorism, we need to further encourage the convergence and compatibility of national legislations, to introduce complex procedural reforms, and generally to develop a much greater investigation and prosecution capacity at the national level and strengthen the capacity to cooperate at the international level. We need to build capacity for international cooperation of Member States within their own criminal justice system. We need to come up with more instruments that set standards for best practices and cooperation. We need to institutionalize and expand cooperation, the sharing of intelligence and data, training and technology and organization that can be shared without compromising national capabilities.”

    2016-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7831 (2016) · source

  3. “International judicial cooperation against terrorism is hampered by many challenges, such as the diversity of law enforcement structures, the absence of channels for the exchange of information, divergent approaches and priorities among nations, language, human rights and privacy issues, issues regarding the criminal and criminal procedure code to ensure that the appropriate criminal acts are extraditable, ensuring that sensitive information received via international cooperation is kept confidential and the varied procedural requirements of each jurisdiction.”

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  4. “Fourthly, ordinary citizens in many societies like Kenya's are demanding much better service from law enforcement agencies through more prosecutions and convictions. Raising the awareness of citizens and their involvement in the prevention of terrorism and violent extremist ideologies is crucial in winning the war against terrorism while upholding human rights.”

    2016-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7831 (2016) · source

  5. “International conventions and initiatives such as the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and the Secretary General's Plan of Action to prevent violent extremism provide parameters to set such standards through which Member States can adapt their national strategies based on their own unique national circumstances. Thirdly, terrorists and other criminals have shown the ability to adapt to law enforcement efforts to apprehend them. They have devised the means to travel freely throughout the world, under false identities using stolen and fraudulent travel documents, raise finances through crimes such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, ivory smuggling and corruption as a key enabler. More than ever before, such trends call for strong national coordination and sustained international cooperation to manage and eradicate.”

    2016-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7831 (2016) · source

  6. “AMISOM'S continued success in Somalia against Al-Shabaab is clear testimony of that as is the Lake Chad Basin Initiative against Boko Haram in West Africa. Secondly, terrorist groups move rapidly across national lines and normally find sanctuaries in countries with the weakest links. That is paradoxical since no country can seal its own borders, or rely on self-defence alone, and participate in today's economy effectively. To resolve the paradox, regional and international judicial cooperation against terrorism using well defined standards are vital.”

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  7. “Similarly, in 2014, security laws were amended to strengthen the country's legislative framework against terrorism that resulted in an enhanced legislative framework, inter-agency coordination and cooperation against terrorism particularly between the law enforcement and justice sectors. As a front-line State against international terrorism over the years, Kenya has learnt several lessons regarding the evolving threat. I will mention but a few. First, although enforcement of the law is the responsibility of the sovereign State, mainly to bring perpetrators to justice, a coordinated international response and close regional cooperation are vital. That is because more rapid success in fighting terrorism is achieved when Member States exhibit international cooperation, good faith and honesty.”

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  8. “Since 2012, Kenya's primary contribution to regional counter-terrorism efforts has been its significant troop contribution to the African Union Military Observer Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). It has also hosted numerous trainings involving law enforcement professionals from neighbouring countries to build counter-terrorism capacities and to increase regional cooperation. Following the enactment of a new Constitution in 2010, an independent office of Director of Public Prosecution was created within which is a specialized division on international cooperation. Its target is to give effect to all requests within seven days.”

    2016-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7831 (2016) · source

  9. “Kenya responded to the threat, among other initiatives, by adapting various international statutes into domestic laws, including the 2012 Prevention of Terrorism Act. It also sought deeper counter- terrorism cooperation with other partner States, particularly on the investigation and prosecution of terrorism cases. Kenyan law enforcement agencies have worked with regional organizations including the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the East African Community, the African Union and the broader international community, including the United Nations, the United States and other bilateral partners, to increase its counter-terrorism capacity and secure land, sea, and air borders.”

    2016-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7831 (2016) · source

  10. “Allow me to apprise the Council of Kenya's efforts to promote international judicial cooperation against terrorism and what we believe should be the priorities of the international community moving forward. The terrorist threat in Kenya emanates mainly from the Al-Shabaab terrorist group in Somalia, an affiliate of the Al-Qaida terrorist network. The threat manifests mainly through continued radicalization and violent extremism within its borders that has resulted in an inflow and outflow of foreign terrorist fighters and terrorist attacks, including the 1998 United States embassy bombing, the Paradise Hotel bombing of 2002, the Westgate Mall attack of 2013 and the Garissa University attack of 2015, alongside scores of other attacks over the years.”

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  11. “They have no choice but to cooperate with their foreign counterparts in order to bring the perpetrators of such offences to justice. Terrorism and transnational organized crime require a coordinated international response that calls for more efficient and faster cooperation between Member States. Current multilateral, bilateral and national measures against transnational organized crime, including terrorism are rapidly evolving to keep pace with the new technologies. The evolution over the past decade or so reflects the determination of Member States to work more closely with each other to face the growing threat of terrorism, organized crime and corruption.”

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  12. “Because of its transnational nature, like all transnational organized crime terrorism poses serious problems for national justice systems. It is the national courts that try perpetrators since there is no international court that is competent to try terrorism cases. I grant that it is difficult for criminaljustice officers to investigate or institute criminal proceedings against persons suspected of terrorism when such persons are outside their territory or where key evidence, witnesses, victims or the proceeds from the crime are located outside the country's jurisdiction or where the legal and judicial systems, with which they must cooperate are different from those of their own country. Practitioners of criminal justice cannot realistically work within the confines of national borders.”

    2016-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7831 (2016) · source

  13. “They avoid getting caught by taking advantage of those borders and playing on the frequent reluctance of law enforcement authorities to engage in complicated and expensive transnational investigations and prosecutions. The weak capacity of any one country to address effectively some of those new threats and challenges translates itself into an overall weakness in the entire international regime of criminal justice cooperation. Article 3 of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime gives a clear definition of what constitutes a transnational organized crime. Although the 19 universal conventions and protocols relating to terrorism do not contain such a definition regarding terrorism, nevertheless, they apply only to transnational terrorism.”

    2016-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7831 (2016) · source

  14. “Ms. Oduor: First, I would like to congratulate Spain on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December, and also to commend you, Mr. President, for the manner in which you have conducted its affairs. I thank you as well for inviting me to brief the Council on this very important subject and for providing a detailed concept note (S/2016/1030, annex) to guide today's timely meeting. Today's technological advances have made the world a single, vast global village. Crime is no longer a national phenomenon, but has taken on a transnational dimension. The emergence and expansion of transnational crime confronts all justice systems with some new challenges. Criminal offenders, including terrorists, are mobile and often seek to evade detection, arrest and punishment by operating across international borders.”

    2016-12-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7831 (2016) · source