Transport Minister Haim Corfu urged the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) today to convene a special conference on terrorism and aerial hijacking.
He proposed that the conference should discuss means to tighten security at airports and aboard aircraft. He urged member countries of the ICAO and their airlines to rise above politics and boycott countries that fail to take adequate measure; against hijackers or refused to prosecute them when they are caught.
The ICAO is headquartered in Montreal. Its current president, Assad Kotaite, is a Lebanese. The organization is a global body which represents all countries with aircraft flying international routes.
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