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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/15/wun15.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/15/ixnewstop.htmlDowning Street welcomed a unanimous decision by the security council to approve a British resolution that outlaws incitement to terrorism.....It also places a legal obligation on UN member states "to prevent the subversion of educational, cultural and religious institutions by terrorists and their supporters".
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Blair and Bush try to rally UN against terror
By Toby Helm and Francis Harris at the United Nations
(Filed: 15/09/2005)
Tony Blair and President George W Bush told world leaders last night that they must unite or face destruction at the hand of terrorists.
At a summit in New York to mark the 60th anniversary of the birth of the United Nations, they said Muslim fanatics were exploiting deep divisions and a lack of decisiveness in the international community's response.
After member states failed to agree a definition of terrorism because of objections by Third World states sensitive to the wars waged by "liberation movements", a frustrated Mr Blair told the 15-nation security council that disaster would await unless they formed a strategy as clear as that of the terrorist enemy.
"Terrorism won't be defeated until our determination is as complete as theirs; our defence of freedom as absolute as their fanaticism, our passion for democracy as great as their passion for tyranny," he said.
The terrorists would try to use the Iraq war to divide the international community for years to come, Mr Blair said.
"They want us to believe that somehow it is our fault, that their extremism is somehow our responsibility.
"They play on our divisions. They exploit our hesitation: this is our weakness and they know it, and we must unite against this ghastly game with our conscience."
Iraq, he insisted, was not the inspiration for terrorism.
"The root cause is not a decision on foreign policy, however contentious. It is a doctrine of fanaticism."
Addressing the 191-nation general assembly in a speech that appeared to have been co-ordinated with Mr Blair's, President Bush said: "Either hope will spread or violence will spread and we must take the side of hope.
"As we fight, the terrorists must know that the world stands united against them."
Downing Street welcomed a unanimous decision by the security council to approve a British resolution that outlaws incitement to terrorism.
It also places a legal obligation on UN member states "to prevent the subversion of educational, cultural and religious institutions by terrorists and their supporters".
But the difficulties of forging a united response were underlined earlier at the summit when a group of Muslim countries including Pakistan, Egypt and Syria blocked the West's attempts to get a universal condemnation of terrorism.
The group rejected a draft statement that terrorism amounted to the "deliberate and unlawful targeting and killing" of civilians and could not be "justified or legitimised by any cause or grievance".
The Muslim states said that this could be used against national liberations movements struggling against foreign occupation. Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians are widely seen as legitimate in the Muslim world.
Mr Bush welcomed initial moves for UN reform but said the organisation must stop appointing human rights abusers to organisations designed to defend the rights of man.
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