The development of the Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism should be urgently completed and the work on a comprehensive anti-terrorism convention be stepped up. Terrorism is often closely linked with drug trafficking and organized crime. We welcome the completion of the development of an international convention against organized crime. Russia intends to sign it in the nearest future. We also support the proposal on drafting an international Convention on the Fight Against Corruption.
Strategic stability means promoting human rights and freedoms everywhere.
This area is an important component of the UN activities aimed at establishing a new world order based on international law. Russia contributes significantly to strengthening the universal legal regime. Our country has signed the Statute of the International Criminal Court. Speaking of pooling the efforts of states to solve a twofold task of maintaining international security and ensuring human security, human rights and freedoms we should constantly bear in mind that in the 20th century the rule of the ideology of racial hatred cost mankind scores of millions of human lives. We cannot accept the situation when people have no right to use their mother tongue, are deprived of citizenship and jobs on ethnic grounds, when fighters against fascism are put behind bars while former fascists find favor with the authorities.