Thursday 12 / December / 2024
Muscat: Before the General Assembly, the Sultanate of Oman affirmed its adoption of a firm policy condemning terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, regardless of its causes and justifications.
Oman said it is committed to the goals and charter of the United Nations to maintain international peace and security. Affirming that it has taken all necessary measures to address the threat of terrorism by developing a system to ensure effective dealing with this threat in all governmental and private agencies and civil society institutions.
This came in the speech of the Sultanate delivered by Second Secretary Mohammed bin Ali Al Shehhi, member of the permanent delegation of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations in New York, before the General Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the eighth revision of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
Oman touched on its national strategy to combat terrorism, in which scientific and practical frameworks and foundations for combating terrorism and its financing were established, in line with the United Nations strategy to combat terrorism, in addition to joining international conventions and treaties that criminalise extremism and terrorism.
The Sultanate affirmed that it follows a preventive media policy to immunise society from the causes of extremism and extremism that lead to terrorism, by establishing the values of tolerance, harmony, unity and rapprochement among its members, and avoiding provoking sectarian strife and hate speech in all local tools, and adopting a policy of positive neutrality in dealing with news, especially related to civil conflicts. And sectarianism in some countries in the region, and avoiding intimidation and exaggerations, given that what is happening in those countries is an internal political matter, not a sectarian one.
Oman expressed its belief that the fight against terrorism begins by seeking to lift the feelings of injustice felt by some individuals for not achieving international justice, appealing to the international community to end wars and political conflicts, as their continuation would fuel extremist thought among intellectually extremists, calling for the need to respect sanctities. Not to prejudice it under any names or justifications.
