TEHRAN, June 26 (UPI) -- An international conference on terrorism concluded Sunday in Tehran with calls for collaboration and fewer foreign interventions, Iran's state news agency said.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told delegates from about 60 countries Saturday unnamed international superpowers were using terrorism as an excuse "to sow discord, break the unity among nations to impede their progress and take control over their resources and fates," Iran's Press TV reported.
Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar told the FARS news agency he had met with his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik and the pair had agreed drug trafficking and money laundering provided significant funding to terror groups and needed better policing.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai were in attendance at the conference, which will be hosted next year by Iraq in Baghdad, the reports said.
