Part II
Regional Instruments
Parties in a bid to enhance public awareness of the scourge of
terrorist acts and the need to combat such acts, by providing
guarantees and incentives that will encourage the population to
give information on terrorist acts or other acts which may help to
uncover such acts and arrest their perpetrators.
Article 5
States Parties shall co-operate among themselves in preventing
and combating terrorist acts in conformity with national legislation and
procedures of each State in the following areas:
1. States Parties undertake to strengthen the exchange of
information among them regarding:
(a)
acts and crimes committed by terrorist groups, their leaders and
elements, their headquarters and training camps, their means and
sources of funding and acquisition of arms, the types of arms,
ammunition and explosives used, and other means in their
possession;
(b)
the communication and propaganda methods and techniques
used by the terrorists groups, the behaviour of these groups, the
movement of their leaders and elements, as well as their travel
documents.
2. States Parties undertake to exchange any information that leads
to:
(a)
the arrest of any person charged with a terrorist act against the
interests of a State Party or against its nationals, or attempted to
commit such an act or participated in it as an accomplice or an
instigator;
(b)
the seizure and confiscation of any type of arms, ammunition,
explosives, devices or funds or other instrumentalities of crime
used to commit a terrorist act or intended for that purpose.
3. States Parties undertake to respect the confidentiality of the
information exchanged among them and not to provide such information
to another State that is not party to this Convention, or to a third State
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