efforts aiming at expanding the political participation, achieving sustainable development, meeting requirements of the social equilibrium, activating the role of civil institutions to confront the circumstances conducive to the spreading of violence and the deviant thought. It emphasized the role of mass media, civil institutions and educational systems in forging strategies to confront terrorist allegations and in promoting mass media to set guiding rules for information and press reports. The Conference demanded that the United Nations develop criteria for assisting non-profitable, charitable and human bodies to play their roles in organizing relief and humanitarian works and for preventing the exploitation of these bodies in illegitimate activities. The declaration called for cooperation at national, bilateral, and regional level among specializing bodies for combating terrorism, laundering money, trafficking in weapons and explosives, smuggling drugs, and exchanging expertise and experience including training to ensure the effectiveness of fighting terrorists and their links to the organized crime. --More 2259 Local Time 1959 GMT
