Recognising that terrorist offences and the offences set forth in this Convention, by whoever perpetrated, are under no circumstances justifiable by considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other similar nature, and recalling the obligation of all Parties to prevent such offences and, if not prevented, to prosecute and ensure that they are punishable by penalties which take into account their grave nature;
ob priznavanju, da kazniva teroristična dejanja in kazniva dejanja, opredeljena v tej konvenciji, ne glede na to, kdo jih je zagrešil, nikakor niso opravičljiva iz političnih, filozofskih, ideoloških, rasnih, etničnih, verskih ali drugih podobnih razlogov, ter ob sklicevanju na obveznost vseh pogodbenic preprečevati taka kazniva dejanja, če pa niso preprečena, je treba storilce kazensko preganjati in zagotoviti, da so kaznovani s kaznimi glede na težo dejanja;