The Department of Peacekeeping Operations provides training to national police and law enforcement officers and officials on criminal matters including kidnapping, information-gathering, hostage-taking, close protection, and the investigation of assassinations, murders and bombings. The Department of Safety and Security is responsible for coordinating the activities of the UN integrated security management system relative to the safety and security of UN staff, assets and operations at all UN duty stations around the world taking into account various threats, including terrorism. The Department, INTERPOL and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs are also working together to develop emergency response capacity for security threats, including terrorism. In compliance with the ECOSOC resolution on IPO (E/2006/28) adopted in July 2006, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute continued to provide support to numerous Member States engaged in the security preparations of major events such as the Olympic Games and other large-scale sporting events, high-level summits and mass events. It has also provided training to security planners from 17 Latin American countries, while in Europe it has promoted the development of an integrated research area on major event security. In addition, UNICRI has developed a number of technical tools in support of national policymakers and security planners. The International Atomic Energy Agency activities aimed at assisting States have included: more than 100 evaluation missions to help States to identify their own broad nuclear security requirements; arranging for the recovery, disposition and/or storage of approximately 100 high-activity and neutron sources; helping States in training customs and other border officials and installing detection equipment at border crossings; and, operating a 24-hour contact network to facilitate States’ cooperation in the event of a nuclear accident or a radiological emergency. The Agency also helps States to implement current and future undertakings to the instruments that form the strengthened international platform in the area of nuclear security, like the recently amended Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials, the Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism and Security Council resolution 1540 (2004). The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons contributes to global anti-terrorism efforts by promoting universal adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention. It is continuing its efforts, within its mandate, to assist States to build capacity to prevent terrorists from 64

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