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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of a major global threat from foreign fighters fleeing the defeated Daesh terrorist organisation and declared stopping them should be a high global priority.
"They, as well as those they inspire, represent a major transnational threat", he said on Tuesday at the launch of the UN Countering Terrorist Travel Programme (CTTP). "Detecting and disrupting these terrorists and other high-risk criminals prior to them carrying out an attack is a high priority for the international community".
He warned, "Many are well trained and could carry out future terrorist attacks. Others hope to radicalise and recruit new followers to their cause".
Two years ago the UN estimated that over 40,000 foreign terrorists from more than 110 countries may have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join terrorist groups, he said. With the fall of the territories held by Daesh, many of them are returning home or relocating to other trouble spots or safe haven, he added.
"It is apparent that that these terrorist who lost territory elsewhere are looking for new pressure points to ignite", Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative Rohan Perera, whose nation was attacked by terrorists last month on Easter, said.
Two affiliates of Daesh has claimed responsibility for the Easter suicide bombings in his country and it is investigating Daesh links to two local groups, National Thowheed Jamath and Jamath Millate Ibrahim, he said.
Perera, who is also the head of the UN Committee on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, said that Sri Lanka is pursuing efforts to establish a regional counter-terrorism there.
Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov, the head of the Office of Counter-Terrorism, described the CCTP as a flagship programme of his office in partnership with the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the Office of Information Communication Technology (OICT) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Guterres thanked India for its continued support to the UN's counter-terrorism programmes.
Under the programme the UN is to provide state-of-the-art software, goTravel, which is capable of analysing travel data to help help countries track terrorism suspects across borders, according to the UN. It will be able to cross-check data from Advance Passenger Information System used by some government agencies and Passenger Name Record used by airline reservation systems with international databases of terrorist and criminals through an enhanced information exchange.
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