APPENDIX 2
Letter from the Counter Terrorism Policy
Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office to the Rt Hon Sir
John Stanley MP
SIGNATURE AND
RATIFICATION OF
UN CONVENTIONS
Mr Mike O'Brien has asked me to write to you
to pass on some further information which he thought might be
of interest, about the status of ratification of the twelve UN
anti-terrorism Conventions and Protocols.
On 11 September last year, the UK was the only
State to have ratified all 12 UN Conventions relating to terrorism.
Since then, States have tackled ratification of these Conventions
with renewed urgency. This is in part owing to the obligations
imposed on States to improve their counter-terrorism capacity
by UNSCR 1373.
Because of the level of activity, the statistics
which we receive from the UN are not always up-to-date. Since
we replied to your PQ, we have learnt that Cuba, Spain, and Austria
have also signed and ratified all 12 Conventions and Protocols.
Denmark hope to have completed the ratification of the UN Convention
for the Suppression of Financing of Terrorism by the end of this
month, which means that they too will have signed and ratified
all 12 Conventions and Protocols.
Counter Terrorism Policy Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
14 June 2002
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