4.
ENDORSING the international counter-terrorism framework adopted by the United
Nations through resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the
Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy;
5.
RECOGNIZING the content of the 2013 CICTE Declaration that the importance for
member states of the OAS to sign, ratify, or accede to, as the case may be, and to
implement in an effective way the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism, as well
as the pertinent universal legal instruments, including all the existing related international
conventions, protocols, and amendment, and to implement the UN Security Council
resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001), 1540 (2004), 1624 (2005), 1631 (2005), 2133
(2014), 2178 (2014), 2170 (2014) and other pertinent resolutions, and the UN Global
Counter-Terrorism Strategy adopted by the UN General Assembly;
6.
NOTING WITH CONCERN that the terrorism threat has become more diffuse, with an
increase of terrorist acts in various regions of the world, including those motivated by
intolerance or extremism; and EXPRESSING their determination to combat this threat;
7.
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that the threat of terrorism would be exacerbated in those
cases in which connections may be established between terrorism and illicit drug
trafficking, illicit trafficking in arms, money laundering, and other forms of transnational
organized crime, and that such illicit activities might be used to support and finance
terrorist activities;
8.
EMPHASIZING that terrorism cannot and should not be associated with any religion,
nationality, or civilization;
9.
RECOGNIZING the content of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2178 which
reaffirms concern over the increased use by terrorists and their supporters of
communications technology for the purpose of radicalizing to terrorism, recruiting and
inciting others to commit terrorist acts, including through the internet, and financing and
facilitating the travel and subsequent activities of foreign terrorist fighters and
underlining the need for Member States to act cooperatively to prevent terrorists from
exploiting technology communications and resources to incite support for terrorist acts,