Gijs de Vries

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.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.

Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.