UN General Assembly
2001

outset, the international community has demonstrated its resolve to confront the menace of terrorism. The General Assembly and the Security Council have passed resolutions unanimously condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks, and countries and other international organizations have followed with a host of other initiatives to that end. The international community has stood up to the challenge united. Denmark welcomes the broad coalition of countries that has rallied behind the United States response to the terrorist attacks in order to effectively bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of international terrorism. By acting together, by acting resolutely, by redoubling our efforts, we will stop the terror. At the international level, we need the United Nations to provide the norms and the international legal framework required to define and criminalize acts of terror. The United Nations has already put important parts of the legal machinery in place with the 12 existing conventions aimed at combating specific forms of terror. Furthermore, work is well under way towards a comprehensive convention on international terrorism.