Kerry: There Is No ‘Manual’ On How to Beat Terrorism
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For a three-day conference of world leaders, there could never have been a larger and more all-encompassing subject to tackle than how to beat Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group].
In the opening remarks for the conference, US secretary of state John Kerry welcomed the attendees - a who's who in the corridors of power, from the UK's new foreign secretary Boris Johnson as well as heads of state from countries including France, Finland, Sweden, Canada, Japan, Kuwait and Australia, as well as the FBI and military leaders.
"Nothing like this coalition has ever before been assembled. And we're not following a manual on antiterrorist coalition-building, we're writing it."
The conference will focus, he said, on sharing ideas, learning about different situations and challenges facing each country, from domestic terror attacks in the US like San Bernardino and Orlando, to the Nice and Paris attacks in France and airport security in Turkey, to the devastating war in Syria which has displaced millions and triggered the largest refugee crisis since World War II.
The so-called "Counter-Daesh" coalition was first summoned by president Obama two years ago.
And in the wake of the attack in Nice this month where a lorry driver ploughed into Bastille Day crowds, killing 84 outright, president Obama vowed that he would "never give up on diplomacy".
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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