The article is devoted to the Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism adopted by the Committee of Ministries of CE on May 3,2005. It contains a short review on the elaboration of the Convention and gives a full coverage of its basic provisions making accent on the three major articles "Public Provocation to Commit a Terrorist Offence", "Recruitment for Terrorism", "Training for Terrorism".

The Convention is the first international treaty criminalizing these three offences and thus contributing to the effective international efforts and national policies in field of prevention of terrorism. A significant part of the article concentrates on the efforts to find in the Convention a proper balance between effective antiterrorist efforts and respect for human rights, inter alia, in the field of criminal prosecution. The author makes an attempt to estimate the results achieved in the Convention and its potential as the first known international treaty fully designed to prevent terrorism.