G7 ministers to mull counter-terrorism strategy

Rome, Oct 11 (IANS/AKI) Interior Ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations and top European Union officials will meet in Italy next week to forge ways of combating jihadist foreign fighters and the use of the Internet by terrorist groups.

Ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the UK and the US, EU Migration and Internal Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos and the bloc's Security Commissioner Julian King will attend the summit on the Italian island of Ischia on October 19-20.

Italy's Interior Ministry said the two-day summit would centre on ways of working with the private sector to prevent terrorist organisations using the Internet to further their aims and on the sharing of information aimed at depleting the foreign fighters' ranks.

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