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You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Gijs de Vries

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Gijs de Vries
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 22
Diplomat
Dutch Politician
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New York City
New York
Intelligence
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Sovereignty
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It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.
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Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
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We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
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We remain vulnerable.There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.
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If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
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If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
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Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
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The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
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If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.
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We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.
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