LYON, France – The Minister of the Interior of Luxembourg, Jean-Marie Halsdorf, has met with INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble to discuss areas for extending collaboration in national, regional and international security as well as the role of INTERPOL as a link between Europe and other regions.

With the partnership between INTERPOL and the European Union in tackling common crime challenges high on the agenda, Luxembourg's Minister of the Interior was updated on INTERPOL's collaboration with Europol and briefed on the full range of INTERPOL's tools and services, including its global databases. The minister was accompanied by Luxembourg's Director of Internal Security, Andrée Colas, and by INTERPOL's Special Representative to the EU, Pierre Reuland.

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MINSK, Belarus – INTERPOL has confirmed that two previously unlinked terrorist attacks in Minsk were perpetrated by the same person after a fingerprint match was established at INTERPOL's General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon after it received fingerprint specimens from law enforcement officials in Belarus.

Confirmation from INTERPOL's General Secretariat of the links between the Minsk terror attacks of 11 April 2011 and 4 July 2008 came during an official meeting in Minsk between INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble and Anotoliy Kuleshov, Minister of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Belarus.

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