(VOA News) Peter Heinlein - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed an international treaty outlawing terrorism at a conference marking the one-year anniversary of the deadly attacks in Madrid last March 11 in which Islamic extremists killed nearly 200 people and injured 1,500. He said the world must move quickly to deny terrorists the means to launch a nuclear attack that could cause international chaos. "The UN must be at the forefront at fighting against terrorism and first of all in proclaiming loud and clear that terrorism can never be accepted or justified in any course whatsoever," he said.
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