Promoting the Legal Framework and Co-operation in Criminal Matters related to Terrorism On 24-26 October, an ATU staff member participated in a conference on "Bringing Terrorists to Justice: European Standards Promotion and Sharing of Best Practices", which was organized in Kiev by the Council of Europe in co-operation with the Ukrainian Security Service. The meeting brought together more than 40 participants from Ukrainian Law Enforcement agencies and the Judiciary, international experts from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom as well as representatives of international and regional organizations (the Anti-Terrorist Centre of the Commonwealth of Independent States; the European Court of Human Rights, Eurojust, and the OSCE). The discussions focussed on experiences and challenges in using international legal instruments for police and judicial co-operation in the area of counter-terrorism. From 27-29 September, the ATU, in co-operation with UNODC and with the support of the OCEEA, organized a Sub-regional Workshop on “Preventing and Countering the Financing of Terrorism” in Chisinau. The workshop gathered more than 50 experts from 20 countries, mainly from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. Participants included representatives from the police and other law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and experts from Financial Intelligence Units and officials from various ministries, such as the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Finance. On 24-25 November, the ATU, in close co-operation with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the UNODC TPB, and in partnership with the Anti-Terrorist Center (ATC) of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan, organized a workshop on the “Implementation of the Universal Anti-Terrorism Instruments (UATI)” in Bishkek. The workshop brought together more than 30 participants from different governmental authorities, the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Parliament (Commission on Defence and Security) to discuss recommendations that were developed during a workshop organized by ATU/TPB in 2009. The recommendations aimed at aligning relevant national legislation with the UATI, and facilitating the process to ratify the UATI, to which Kyrgyzstan was not yet party. As a follow-up, the ATC agreed to co-ordinate the preparation of relevant amendments to be submitted to the Parliament and, in co-operation with the Commission on Defence and Security, to a justification note to initiate the ratification process of the outstanding UATI. Travel Document Security The OSCE and the IOM initiated in Tajikistan a programme on “Enhancing Identity Management and Travel Document Security”. Within the programme, the OSCE is responsible for assisting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Internal Affairs/Police. The OSCE module will have as its cornerstone the reform of the travel document issuing system and the strengthening of the identity management procedures that allow authorities to securely establish a person’s identity during the travel document application process and at the border, including through the use of the International Civil Aviation Organization Public Key Directory. The project is comprehensive in nature and will help to underpin OSCE’s Police Reform efforts in Tajikistan and combat a number of transnational threats, such as the movement of terrorists and extremists, organized crime, as well as trafficking and smuggling in all its forms. In Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Unit continued a project to facilitate real-time access for border control points to INTERPOL databases, including the Stolen/Lost Travel Document Database (SLTD), and to support the building of databases for travel document issuance and border control purposes. Projects such as these establish border management systems that provide the backbone for capturing, verifying, storing and sharing information on crossborder activity. This helps to greatly strengthen the analytical capacity of law enforcement officials to help combat organized crime, terrorism and other transnational threats. 25