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Money and weapons main terrorism threat for Serbia

The potential movement of money and weapons remains the main terrorism threat facing Serbia but the government has taken steps to upgrade its capabilities in fighting terrorism, the US State Department said in its Country Reports on Terrorism 2017.

The report recalled that there were no terrorist attacks in the country and that the level of recruitment for ISIS was low. It added that the government adopted a national counter-terrorism strategy and continued its cooperation with >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << other countries and organizations in law enforcement and cyber-security.

“Serbia continued to benefit from U.S. government training to build counterterrorism capacity,” the report said and recalled that the country formed an inter-agency counterterrorism task force similar to the US Joint Terrorism Task Force and that Serbian military and security services personnel attended counter-terrorism and border control training courses with their counterparts from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The authors of the report feel that Serbia’s law enforcement capacities need improvement, but that progress is steady, adding that the Counter Terrorism and Extremism Service is proactive in its efforts to detect, deter and prevent terrorism while the government has set up inter-agency working groups to handle security at both strategic and operational levels.

The report said that Serbia’s has limited regional and international cooperation on counterterrorism issues but that it does work with Interpol and Europol. “Serbia has well-developed bilateral border security cooperation programs with Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania, and a Tri-Border partnership with Bosnia and Croatia. Serbian agencies also routinely engage with Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro”, the report said.

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