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Spain’s delegation attended the Fourth High-Level Counter-Terrorism Conference and co-hosted a UNOCT-Morocco event on terrorism victims.

The Centre of Intelligence against Terrorism and Organised Crime (CITCO) took part in the Fourth United Nations Counter-Terrorism Week, held from 26 June to 2 July 2026 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, under the theme «A Future Free from Terrorism: Consolidating the Global Commitment to Multi-Stakeholder Approaches to Counter Terrorism». The gathering brought together more than one thousand participants from approximately one hundred and nineteen countries, and stands as the largest multilateral counter-terrorism forum of the year.

The Spanish delegation was composed of personnel from CITCO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, and the Directorate-General for International Police Cooperation of the Secretariat of State for Security. The Director of CITCO, Mr Francisco Javier Marín Lizarraga, addressed the Fourth High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies, held on 30 June. The Head of the External Relations Section presented the Spanish model of security for major cultural and sporting events at one of the side events, co-organised by Qatar, Hungary, FIFA, UEFA and UNOCT, with a particular view to the 2027 UEFA Champions League final and the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

In the course of the week, the delegation was received by the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations, Mr Héctor José Gómez Hernández. Spain also co-organised, alongside the Kingdom of Morocco and UNOCT, the event «Placing Victims at the Centre», which built on the legacy of the International Conference on Victims of Terrorism held in Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2024 and reaffirmed the crucial role of our model within this international agenda.

Spain voted in favour of the ninth review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, adopted on 1 July. Throughout the negotiations, our country defended the comprehensive and balanced nature of the instrument, reinforcing the human rights pillar, the relevance of a robust rule of law, the centrality of victims and the consolidation of the UNOCT Programme Office in Madrid as an international reference centre for the protection of vulnerable targets and the prevention of violent extremism.