Cuba Ratifies Anti-terrorism AgreementsCuba's National Assembly on Thursday ratified seven international conventions and protocols against terrorism, making the Caribbean island adhere totally to the 12 legal agreements adopted by the United Nations on the matter.The approval came at a legislative session which was convened in a tribute to the 73 victims in the October 6, 1976 explosion of a Cuban commercial flight. The participants also approved the erection of a monument in memory of the victims. Among the agreements are the Convention on Preventing the Hijacking of Airliners, signed in Havana on December 16, 1970, and the International Convention on Kidnapping, approved by the UN General Assembly on December 17, 1979. Other documents were the Convention on Preventing Illicit Acts Against Navigation, signed in Rome on March 10, 1988, and the Protocol on Preventing Illicit Acts Against Sea Platforms on the Sea Shelf, signed in Rome on March 10, 1988. Cuban representatives also ratified the Convention on Marking Plastic Explosives for Detection Purposes, signed in Montreal on March 1, 1991. The International Convention on Crackdown on Terrorist Attacks With Explosives, approved by the UN General Assembly on December 15, 1997, is another of the approved documents. The Cuban congressmen also approved the International Convention on Preventing Financing to Terrorism, originally approved by the UN General Assembly on December 9, 1999. |
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