ASEAN Members to Enhance Cooperation in Fighting Terrorism: Official

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ASEAN Members to Enhance Cooperation in Fighting Terrorism: Official

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ASEAN Secretary General Rodolfo Severino said Saturday that ASEAN countries will step up cooperation in combating terrorism, particularly after some severe terrorist acts took place in Southeast Asian countries.

Shortly after a signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding on Agricultural Cooperation between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Severino told reporters that terrorism has become a major concern to ASEAN countries because of its impact on human life and human security as well as on the economy of ASEAN countries.

It was learned that terrorism will be high on the agenda at the forthcoming 8th ASEAN summit, to be opened here on Nov. 4.

The cooperation in combating terrorism among ASEAN members has been "going on since Sept. 11 (attacks on the US) and even before that," Severino said.

"The intelligence agencies of ASEAN have been cooperating rather closely for many years, and the law enforcement agencies have been cooperating as well," he said.

The events of September 11 have prompted ASEAN to step up this cooperation, which resulted in the arrest of several potential terrorists and conspirators in several countries in Southeast Asia, the ASEAN official said.

Severino declined to say whether the 8th ASEAN summit will issue a final declaration on countering terrorism this year, as they did at the previous ASEAN summit held in Brunei in November 2001.

ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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