Press Release: Interior Ministers promote new legal ‘tools’ to fight terrorism and organised crime

European Interior Ministers pledged 18 March 2005 their backing to three new Council of Europe conventions designed to stop the actions of terrorists and organised criminals. In a resolution adopted at the end of their conference in Warsaw, the ministers urged the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers to give the green light to a convention on the prevention of terrorism, a convention on money-laundering and the financing of terrorism and a convention on human trafficking. Report from the Third High-level meeting of the Ministries of the Interior - Fight against terrorism and organised crime to improve security in Europe, 17 -18 March 2005, Warsaw (Poland)