TERRORISM Terrorism means the use or threat of action if this action may influence the government or intimidate the public or a section of the public for political, religious or ideological reasons. Terrorism usually involves serious violence against a person or serious damage to property, endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action, and creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public. Terrorists often use firearms or explosives for their purposes. Terrorists may have plans to interfere with or seriously disrupt an electronic system. An organization is concerned in terrorism if it commits or participates in acts of terrorism, prepares for terrorism, promotes or encourages terrorism. Everybody sees the need for fight against terrorism and its financing. Governments of different countries take measures to adapt domestic legislation and international conventions to new technological and other developments of terrorists as well as to their growing sophistication. It is also necessary to intensify cooperation between national administration and judicial, police, financial and other authorities for the purpose of successfully tracing the origin and the routing of funds intended for terrorists. Peoples of the world see the need for intensified international cooperation to identify and neutralize funds for terrorist purposes. Such an undertaking is possible only with a high degree of cooperation at the normative, operative and implementation levels. While such an effort may not ensure the prevention of all terrorist acts, it can contribute significantly to weakening terrorist infrastructures. This is so especially if measures can neutralize terrorism’s legal sources of financing, which in certain cases operate under the cover of humanitarian, non- profit or even charitable organizations. It is also necessary to prevent general criminal activities that often serve to finance terrorism such as trafficking drugs and weapons in human beings. The systems and measures developed over the last few years to prevent the laundering of proceeds from crime can, if conscientiously applied, play a significant role in the detection, freezing and confiscation of terrorist funds. с переводом