Parliamentarians gather in Doha for Counter-Terrorism Coordination Meeting and Policy Dialogue on Border Security
Parliamentary Assemblies from around the world will meet in Doha to participate in the Third Counter-Terrorism Coordination Meeting, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) Programme Office on Parliamentary Engagement, in cooperation with the Shura Council of the State of Qatar and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), on 30 January.
The event is the latest in a series of regular parliamentary coordination meetings aimed at enhancing collaboration among parliamentary assemblies on counter-terrorism and preventing and countering violent extremism (PCVE). Participants from parliamentary assemblies from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East will attend the hybrid meeting.
The meeting of Parliamentary Assemblies will continue on 31 January with a Parliamentary Policy Dialogue on border security and cross-border cooperation in the context of counter-terrorism. Participants will discuss main challenges and threats to border security stemming from terrorist groups and deliberate on measures that can be taken at the international and regional level to address existing gaps and ensure better cross-border cooperation in countering terrorist threats.
