8. Recommends continuing to build a long-term transatlantic collaborative framework and an Action Plan for the Fight against Terrorism to combat international terrorism firmly using all effective means against terrorists groups or individuals and their networks in order to defend the democratic system and the rule
of law and protect fundamental rights and freedoms, not only by military means but, above all, by a civilian approach in the fr
amework of conflict prevention and by addressing the roots of the tremendous political, social, e
...[+++]conomic and environmental problems of today’s world; stresses that the fight against terrorism cannot be waged at the expense of basic shared values such as respect for human rights and civil liberties;