Foreign Affairs Advisor Md. Touhid Hossain will represent Bangladesh at the high-level conference on “Strengthening International Counter-Terrorism Cooperation and Creating Agile Border Security Mechanisms: The Kuwait Phase of the Dushanbe Process”, which will be held in Kuwait City from November 4 to 5. November.

The conference is important because it will expand the scope and impact of the Dushanbe Process beyond Central Asia, the UN said, noting that this represents a new and significant development in counterterrorism cooperation around the world.

Adviser Hossain left for Kuwait this morning (November 3), according to a senior Ministry of External Affairs official. He is scheduled to return home on November 6.

The conference will be jointly organized by the State of Kuwait, the Republic of Tajikistan and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNTOT).

The event will bring together foreign ministers and/or ministers responsible for the fight against terrorism, senior officials and experts in the fight against terrorism, mainly from the League of Arab States, Central Asia, Africa and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ), as well as member states of the UN Security Council, United Nations entities, international and regional organizations, academia and representatives of academia, civil society and the private sector, including youth, women and rights actors humans.

This joint Kuwait-Tajikistan-UNTO event will focus on preventing the movement of terrorists, improving collaboration and building stronger partnerships to support more effective and agile counterterrorism and border security measures.

The results of the event will be reflected in the Kuwait Declaration that will be issued at the end of the Conference, according to the UN.

The conference will be sponsored by Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who has appointed Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to represent him at the event.

It is scheduled to conclude on November 5 with the adoption of the “Kuwait Declaration” on border security.