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| Brown unveils security strategy | Brown unveils security strategy |
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| Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to outline the major threats facing Britain in the country's first ever national security strategy. | |
| As well as terror attacks, it will focus on the risks from climate change, scarce energy supplies, migration, flooding and pandemic diseases. | As well as terror attacks, it will focus on the risks from climate change, scarce energy supplies, migration, flooding and pandemic diseases. |
| The PM will address the issues and what the state and citizens can do to confront them in a statement to MPs. | The PM will address the issues and what the state and citizens can do to confront them in a statement to MPs. |
| Security Minister Lord West says it is vital to look at a range of threats. | Security Minister Lord West says it is vital to look at a range of threats. |
| The drawing up of such a document and getting Whitehall departments to agree on it has not been an easy task - the strategy is four months behind schedule. | The drawing up of such a document and getting Whitehall departments to agree on it has not been an easy task - the strategy is four months behind schedule. |
| The challenge for government will be transforming this ambitious framework into effective action Gordon CoreraSecurity CorrespondentBBC | The challenge for government will be transforming this ambitious framework into effective action Gordon CoreraSecurity CorrespondentBBC |
| Threats as diverse as failed states and extreme weather are expected to rank as importantly as terrorism. | Threats as diverse as failed states and extreme weather are expected to rank as importantly as terrorism. |
| BBC Security correspondent Gordon Corera said there would be "an emphasis on the new, complex, interrelated nature of risk and the need for greater public awareness. | BBC Security correspondent Gordon Corera said there would be "an emphasis on the new, complex, interrelated nature of risk and the need for greater public awareness. |
| "The challenge for government will be transforming this ambitious framework into effective action." | "The challenge for government will be transforming this ambitious framework into effective action." |
| Lord West, the former head of the Royal Navy, rejected suggestions that it will be no more than a "worthy" study. | Lord West, the former head of the Royal Navy, rejected suggestions that it will be no more than a "worthy" study. |
| "There are some areas which we have got very well under control; there are other areas where a lot of work is needed and what this is doing is identifying that and giving us a focus as a way to move forward," he told BBC1's Politics Show. | "There are some areas which we have got very well under control; there are other areas where a lot of work is needed and what this is doing is identifying that and giving us a focus as a way to move forward," he told BBC1's Politics Show. |
| 'Vigilance' | 'Vigilance' |
| "If there was an easy answer to all of this we would not have had to go down this route. | "If there was an easy answer to all of this we would not have had to go down this route. |
| "It is highly complicated and it is very difficult, but we are leading the world on this. | "It is highly complicated and it is very difficult, but we are leading the world on this. |
| "Rather than anything in the past which was produced - very much defence, foreign policy, a bit of Home Office, the threat to the state - we are now much more looking at the citizen and tying the citizen into this. | "Rather than anything in the past which was produced - very much defence, foreign policy, a bit of Home Office, the threat to the state - we are now much more looking at the citizen and tying the citizen into this. |
| "Let's think of their vigilance, how does this involve them." | "Let's think of their vigilance, how does this involve them." |
| However, a report by think-tank Demos warned recently that the government was "lurching from one crisis to another" and leaving the country vulnerable to attack. | However, a report by think-tank Demos warned recently that the government was "lurching from one crisis to another" and leaving the country vulnerable to attack. |
| It said: "The forthcoming national security strategy is a step in the right direction but its aim must be to transform our outdated and compartmentalised national security architecture. | It said: "The forthcoming national security strategy is a step in the right direction but its aim must be to transform our outdated and compartmentalised national security architecture. |
| "Unless we have joined-up government of national security, we will be vulnerable through the cracks." | "Unless we have joined-up government of national security, we will be vulnerable through the cracks." |