Caribbean Net News: Five Caribbean nations late in filing anti-terror reports to UN

NEW YORK, USA (AFP): A UN Security Council committee has named five Caribbean nations among 58 countries that failed to meet an Oct 31 deadline to submit reports on measures they are taking to stop supporting, financing and providing sanctuary to terrorists.

The Counter-Terrorism Committee is monitoring what all 191 United Nations member states are doing to implement a Security Council resolution adopted less than three weeks after the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

The resolution requires UN members to adopt legislation and take administrative measures and other steps to halt all support for terrorists.

In a letter to the council circulated on Wednesday, Spain's UN Ambassador Inocencio Arias said that 'a total of 58 states... have failed to meet the Oct 31 deadline for the submission of outstanding second and third reports'.

The committee identified Dominica and St Lucia as two of 26 countries that had not submitted their second reports.

The committee also named the Bahamas, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago as three of 31 countries that missed the deadline to submit their third report.

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