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8247th Security Council Meeting: Threats to International Peace and Security
The Security Council today strongly encouraged Member States as well as relevant regional, subregional and international organizations to enhance cooperation and strategies to prevent terrorists from benefiting from transnational organized crime.
Issuing presidential statement S/PRST/2018/9, presented by Council President Joanna Wronecka (Poland), the body also strongly encouraged States to secure their borders against, investigate and prosecute terrorists and criminals working with them, including by strengthening national, regional and global systems to collect, analyse and exchange information.
Noting that the nature and scope of links between terrorism and transnational organized crime varied by context, the Council encouraged the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to continue including that issue in relevant reporting requirements and research programmes, and urged States, as a matter of priority, to consider ratifying, acceding to and implementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and protocols thereto, among other such instruments.
Further, the Council reaffirmed that Member States must ensure that any measures taken to counter terrorism must comply with all their obligations under international law, and encouraged them, as well as international, regional and subregional organizations, to support initiatives to address links between terrorism and transnational organized crime.
In that context, the Council called on Member States to prevent terrorists from benefiting from the financial proceeds of transnational organized crime, and to prevent the movement of terrorists by effective national border controls and controls on issuance of identity papers and travel documents.
The meeting began at 10:03 a.m. and ended at 10:05 a.m.
