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Youth – the leading force in the fight against terrorism and extremism
2018-06-12 | Society
On June 11, an international conference on “The role of youth in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism” began in Tashkent.
The event is organized by the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan jointly with the Project Coordinator of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations. It is being attended by delegations from Afghanistan, China, Germany, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, foreign experts, as well as senators, deputies, activists of the Union of Youth of Uzbekistan, scientists, journalists.
Uzbekistan considers the fight against extremism and radicalism as an important condition for ensuring global security, is a constant participant and initiator of this process.
In order to combat these factors, relevant decisions of the UN, OSCE and several other international organizations have been adopted. These documents provide for implementation of a large-scale international mechanism for combating the propaganda of terrorism. This, in turn, contributes to development of national action programs and development of youth policy.
Within the framework of the conference, a presentation of the information portal on combating extremism – stopterror.uz, created by the Center for Studying Regional Threats with the assistance of the OSCE was held. The winners of the regional stage of the competition “Youth of Central Asia against violent extremism” will be announced at the event.
Prospects of creating an International Association of youth of the region to prevent violent extremism and terrorism were also discussed at the meeting.
