Government calls for world ban on incitement to terrorism

Friday, 2 September 2005 12:00 AM

The government has circulated a UN Security Council draft resolution urging all nations to ban incitement of terrorist acts.

The draft resolution calls on world governments to "prohibit by law the incitement of a terrorist act or acts through the adoption of such measures as may be necessary and appropriate and in accordance with their obligations under international law".

And it also urges all countries to stamp out "violent extremist ideologies, including steps to prevent the subversion of educational, cultural, and religious institutions by terrorists and their supporters".

The government hopes the resolution will be approved at the forthcoming UN world summit in September.

Many of the world leaders on the 15-member Security Council are expected to attend the gathering, including French president Jacques Chirac and Russia's Vladimir Putin, but it is unclear whether US president George Bush will join them.

The government launched a clampdown on so-called hate preachers in the aftermath of the London bombings that killed 52 people and left 700 injured on July 7th.

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