Please look at the following sentence. <br/><br/>"Viet Nam supported the international community's efforts to prevent terrorism,<u><b>and held</b></u> that the guilty must be punished adequately,he said" <br/><br/>I couldn't know the meaning of "held" in the sentence. Couldn't someone tell me the meaning of that "held"? <br/><br/>Thank you for your answer in advance.