WHISTLER, Canada, June 12 Kyodo T...

WHISTLER, Canada, June 12 Kyodo

The clump of Eight (G-8) major countries released a report Wednesday urging the international community to continue making efforts to combat terrorism.

''Further action is required from all nations -- individually and collectively -- to sustain a in truth effective global offensive against terrorism,'' said the report in succession the progress in G-8 antiterrorism efforts since the tribe 11 attacks on the United States.

The report was released after the opening session of the two-day G-8 foreign ministerial meeting in this ski resort in western Canada.

It reported progres in three areas -- strengthening security measures in the G-8 members, beefing up international measures against terrorism and assisting non-G-8 countries' antiterrorism efforts.

For measures within the G-8 the paper said they have implemented novel laws and policies to strengthen political, diplomatic, military, legal, intelligence, law enforcement and financial couterterrorism activities. ''We have invested billions of dollars in enhancing security.''

The report also said the G-8 has been utilizing UN counterterrorism instruments to crack down forward terrorism, including U.N. Security Council resolutions.

It pressureed the importance of the UN instruments, calling forward nations to implement measures to interrupt bombings, hijackings and hostage-taking, disown safe havens and stop terrorism financing and afford of weapons.

The G-8 forward the other hand, has been assisting other countries in building their terrorism-fighting capacities by the and of ''training, institution-building, cooperation among law enforcement and intelligence assign places tos and sharing of technical expertise,'' the report said.

The G-8 collections Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the US

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