The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.