UN General Assembly
2001

conviction in deciding on actions and formulating decisions that were recently adopted during the consultative meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs. In the context of our regional association — the Common Market Southern Cone (MERCOSUR) — on 28 September 2001, it was decided to undertake the broadest possible cooperation among its members in order to carry out information exchange, studies, concerted actions against terrorist acts and the establishment of an open-ended working group to appraise and devise common policies in the fight against terrorism. In recent weeks we have experienced once again a new terrorist threat, and I am referring particularly to the use of biological agents, whose effects could reach a planetary level and threaten humanity itself as a whole. This new criminal practice compels us to react as rapidly and energetically as possible and be determined in all our efforts to uncover the perpetrators and their sponsors, who are acting in anonymity. 7 International concern and actions generated by the events of September must also prompt us to reflect and evaluate other themes of transcendental importance