According to the document, the participants of the Conference “reaffirmed
the role of peace and sustainable development as necessary condition for strengthening relations, as well as ensuring sincerity and enhancing synergy in relations between states”.
In addition, the central role of the United Nations in promoting international
cooperation in the prevention and countering terrorism and extremism was emphasized,
as well as the need to implement all measures in accordance with international
law and the principles of the UN Charter.
The document
condemns “in the strongest terms” the terrorist acts in the member states of the Conference, including the recent terrorist act in Chabahar (Islamic
Republic of Iran), which took place on December 7, 2018. “In this regard, we
are determined to eradicate terrorism and condemn support for terrorism, as well as to reinforce and confirm our efforts in this field,” the Declaration
says.
The importance of inter-parliamentary interaction and cooperation at different levels for the mutual learning from experience aimed at building a world without terrorism was also emphasized.
The security authorities of the participating States
are encouraged to establish a special mechanism for sharing intelligence and best practices, as well as lessons learned in the field of preventing and countering
terrorism.
Conference participants called on states,
especially those being victims of terrorism, to fully cooperate countering it,
as well as in accordance with international law and the provisions of the UN
Charter and based on the principle “extradite or prosecute”, to deny asylum and bring to justice any a person who supports, assists, participates or attempts
to participate in financing, planning, preparing or committing terrorist acts.
The participants of the Conference supported the efforts of joint implementation of the Belt and Road initiative,
“which aims to improve interaction between countries and regions for interrelated
development”.
The declaration emphasizes that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
is an important achievement of multilateral diplomacy, unanimously endorsed by the UN Security Council resolution 2231. Participants reaffirmed the urgent
need for strict implementation and full compliance of the commitments.
In addition, the Moscow
Process initiatives related to the parliamentary dimension of countering the global drug problem and enshrined in the Declaration of the International
Conference “Parliamentarians against Drugs” (December 4, 2017, Moscow) and the Declaration of the International Forum “Development of Parliamentarism” (4–6
June 2018б Moscow), including
the need to expand the inter-parliamentary dialogue to improve existing
mechanisms to counter international terrorism, drug trafficking and cybercrime,
were supported.
Participants also welcome “any
efforts to achieve peace in Afghanistan, including the Moscow consultations on Afghanistan.”
The declaration states that the participants agreed
that in order to ensure global and regional peace and stability, Pakistan and India should reach a peaceful settlement of the issue of Jammu and Kashmir in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution (Pakistan, P19 Islamabad,
December).
The document supports the “inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, in particular, to establish their own state with
Al-Quds as its capital”.
The declaration confirms “the determination to support
the Republic of Turkey in bringing to justice those who committed the attempted
coup on July 15 and other crimes”.
The participants of the Conference commended
recent major achievements in defeating ISIS (banned organization in the Russian
Federation – editor’s note) in Iraq and Syria and reaffirmed the attitude
towards it and all terrorist groups operating in the participating states
[Al-Qaeda and associated individuals, groups, enterprises, including legal
entities, as well as Taliban groups not intending to negotiate with the government of Afghanistan] as a serious threat to the security and stability of the states of the region, and called for collective efforts to counter this
threat.”
The final provisions of the declaration note that the participants, referring to the commitment of all states to implement the UN General
Assembly and Security Council resolutions on international terrorism, has stressed
the need for all states to avoid politicizing the UN sanctions regime and the work of the Financial Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF).
