{"content":[{"text":"Mr President, \n Allow me first to thank the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Europe of the French Republic \n Mr Jean–Yves Le Drian and all three main speakers of today`s debate: Mr. Vladimir \n Voronkov, Mr. Marshall Billingslea and Ms Mercy Buku. \n (Slovenia aligns itself with the statement delivered by the European Union and would \n like to add few remarks in its national capacity.)","bbox":{"left":0.115686,"top":0.087197,"width":0.768674,"height":0.13309100000000001}},{"text":"Terrorism, including its financing, requires permanent attention of international \n community as it remains a changing and evolving threat. (Terrorist organizations \n continuously adapt their methods, and look for new sources and methods of funding.) \n Prevention and suppression of the financing of terrorism therefore requires strong co- \n operation in the interest of international, regional and national peace and stability. We \n welcome this open debate, and the Arria meeting that France, together with Australia, \n Indonesia, Peru and Tunisia organized in January, as clear efforts to keep this item high \n on our political, security and development agenda.","bbox":{"left":0.115686,"top":0.234318,"width":0.7686740000000001,"height":0.142788}},{"text":"Every response to terrorist act is quickly followed by the adaptation of means, ways and \n approach on the side of the terrorists, including the evolving use of technology, all of \n which apply also to the financing of terrorist activities. New technologies which enable \n many activities in cyber space are welcomed and used by all of us, but at the same time \n offer the space to terrorists that can be used to more effectively communicate their \n propaganda, recruit new members, coordinate actions, better evade surveillance, and \n arrange provision, collection and distribution of funds for their activities.","bbox":{"left":0.115686,"top":0.391136,"width":0.768674,"height":0.12536399999999998}},{"text":"Slovenia is one of the co-sponsors of the resolution adopted today that clearly reaffirms \n ours, member`s states obligation to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism and \n obligation to request accountability for the perpetrators of terrorists acts, including those \n who finance them.","bbox":{"left":0.115686,"top":0.53053,"width":0.7686080000000001,"height":0.07309100000000002}},{"text":"Not just today's, but also resolutions and other documents adopted within this and other \n organizations clearly show the need for every member state to adopt and implement \n adequate legislation to combat the financing of terrorism and, if needed, national plans. \n We need effective partnerships with the private sector and continuous training of \n relevant stakeholders.","bbox":{"left":0.115686,"top":0.617651,"width":0.768673,"height":0.09051500000000001}},{"text":"In the past years Slovenia adopted specific measures in three areas: \n - amendments to legislation \n - strengthening international and national cooperation and \n - education of stakeholders","bbox":{"left":0.115686,"top":0.722197,"width":0.595245,"height":0.07308999999999999}},{"text":"At the end of 2016 Slovenia, as a member of the EU, adopted new \"Preventing of \n Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act\", which introduced the EU Directive on \n the Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering \n or terrorist financing into national legal system. The new law brought new approach, \n based on analysis and threat assessment both on national and supranational levels. It","bbox":{"left":0.115687,"top":0.809318,"width":0.768578,"height":0.09051500000000001}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}