Algeria Participates in Parliamentary Dialogue on Combating Terrorism Financing in Cyprus

The Algerian Council of the Nation participated on Tuesday, in Limassol (Cyprus), in the 5th Parliamentary Policy Dialogue entitled “Parliamentary Approaches to Combating Terrorism Financing and Related Crimes,” as well as in the 8th meeting of the United Nations Mechanism for Parliamentary Assemblies on Counter-Terrorism, the Council said in a statement.

Mohamed El-Hachemi Debabeche, a member of the Council of the Nation and representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, attended both events, organized by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean in partnership with the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, Qatar’s Shura Council, and Cyprus’s House of Representatives,” according to the source.

Debabeche emphasized, during the session devoted to the relationship between human trafficking and terrorism financing, that “human trafficking is a multidimensional crime, closely linked today to illegal immigration, which is prevalent in the Mediterranean region despite international and regional cooperation efforts to combat human trafficking and migrant smuggling,” added the source.