Kazakh security chief offers to create a unified global list of terrorist organizations

The head of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan Nurtay Abykayev urged Monday the international community to create a unified list of terrorist organizations and introduce political and economic sanctions against supporters of such organizations.

Abykayev made the call while speaking here at South and Central Asia Regional Conference on Countering Violent Extremism. He said excessive attention to ISIS terrorist group on the Internet and in the media is often distorted and is pushing homegrown extremists to commit terrorist acts in their countries in groups or on their own.

According to him, overcoming all kinds of extremism and international terrorism requires collective efforts from the majority of states, nations and the whole world community. In this regard he called on colleagues from other countries and international organizations to create a unified list of terrorist organizations and to establish political and economic sanctions for assistance to such organizations.

Such a measure will help eliminate the double standards that are often used by subjects of international law, he said, adding that a global procedure for removing extremist content from the Internet is long overdue. Endite