لا يزال لبنان يعتبر أن الجهد الدولي المطلوب لقمع الإرهاب يجب أن يرتكز على فهم جذور الإرهاب وكيفية نشوئه، كمدخل لتشخيصه وللحد من انتشاره ومن ثم القضاء عليه.
Lebanon continues to believe that any international effort to suppress terrorism must be based on an understanding of terrorism's root causes and origins in order to diagnose, contain and consequently eradicate the disease — hence the need for a definition of terrorist acts and for the adoption of objective criteria for defining terrorism that are in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, international legal norms and human rights principles.