Journalist and former state TV supremo Abdellatif El Menawy says if the world had listened to former President Hosni Mubarak’s advice 16 years ago, we could have avoided attacks like the one that hit Barcelona last week. He writes in Arab News that Mubarak had suggested in 2001 bringing the world together for an “international conference under the auspices of the United Nations to draft a convention criminalizing terrorism, in which the signatory states pledge not to receive terrorists on their territory and not to allow them to open training camps on their national soil and to prevent them from passing from one country to another … There would be an international boycott of governments that refuse to implement this agreement.”