Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the Foreign Minister, stressed that the delegations participating in the International Counter-terrorism Conference expressed their support for the proposal of Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the Deputy Premier and Commander of the National Guard, to set up an International Center for Combating Terrorism and emphasized its significance within a comprehensive framework to internationally combat the phenomenon of terrorism in a specializing way of activating the international cooperation. In his daily press briefing on the Conference held here today, Prince Saud noted that the delegations have unanimously stressed the importance of enhancing the role of the United Nations in fighting this phenomenon. Prince Saud pointed out that the conference's deliberations affirmed that any international efforts would be incapable of confronting the phenomenon of terrorism if they were short of a collective work and a comprehensive strategic perspective in dealing with it. --More 2304 Local Time 2004 GMT
