| Monday, November 12, 2001, updated at 21:01(GMT+8) |
Regional Conference of Attorneys-General of Countries in Asia andEurope Debuts |
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The Regional Conference of Attorneys-General of Countries in Asia and Europe opened Monday in Guangzhou, with more than 240 delegates from 38 countries and three international organizations attending.
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The Regional Conference of Attorneys-General of Countries in Asia and Europe opened Monday in Guangzhou, with more than 240 delegates from 38 countries and three international organizations attending.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin met with the group Sunday and Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, also sent a message of congratulations to the meeting.
Han Zhubin, procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China, said at the opening ceremony that the procuratorates in Asia and Europe should further cooperate and coordinate efforts to jointly combat transnational organized crime, including international terrorism.
In his speech, Han said that everyone in the world looks forward to long-term peace and prosperity in the 21st century. However, transnational organized crimes, which include international terrorism, illicit arms trading, illegal immigrating, trafficking in women and children, money laundering, drug smuggling, and piracy, are currently becoming more and more internationalized and organized.
To combat international terrorism and transnational organized crimes, which pose great threat to world's peace and stability, is a challenge faced by all, Han stressed.
He noted that China has always attached importance to strengthening international judicial cooperation and striking hard against transnational crimes. This June, a joint statement from the summit of Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan held in Shanghai laid a solid foundation for the international cooperation to combat terrorism.
In the Ninth Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders Meeting, China and other APEC members signed another joint statement concerning anti-terrorism, which demonstrated China's firm stance on anti-terrorism.
Though different in judicial systems and functions, procurators in Asia and Europe share the same task to protect their countries and the life and property of the people. The administrations should deepen cooperation taking into account newly emerging characteristics of transnational organized crimes. Han said.
He expressed his hope that the meeting could help promote communications, strengthen mutual understanding and solidify friendship among the participants.
The two-day meeting, themed "International Cooperation and Combating Transnational Organized Crime," was sponsored by the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China. Participants will attend workshops to discuss characteristics and trends of transnational crime, advantages and prospects for prosecution departments to combat transnational crime, and strategies in international cooperation to combat transnational crime.
Present at the opening ceremony were Joseph Ackpo-Satchvi, secretary of the 5th committee of the General Assembly and the Committee for Program and Coordination of the United Nations, and N. R. Cowdery QC, president of the International Association of Prosecutors.
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