Ms. Kerry Buck at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On January 31st, 2013. See this statement in context.

January 31st, 2013 / 11:30 a.m.

Political Director and Assistant Deputy Minister, International Security, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Kerry Buck

It's a regional threat, and we have taken a regional approach to addressing that regional threat.

For instance, Canada co-chairs the counterterrorism working group on the Sahel, and that is like a clearing house for contributions of countries in the regions and for partners to move forward programming, to build capacity to stop terrorism, to be able to detect bad guys and bad things going across borders. We're taking a regional approach that way. We use our African diplomatic resources to also send that message and help mobilize those programming resources.

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