Dutch - Politician | February 22, 1956 -
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
Gijs de Vries
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You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
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If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.
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In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
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We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
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We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
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Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
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Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.
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We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.
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We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.
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Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.
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Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
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