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STORY: UN / COUNTER-TERRORISM
TRT: 02:56
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CHINESE / NATS
DATELINE: 15 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
15 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT):
“Despite continuing leadership losses by Al-Qaida and Da’esh, terrorism, in general, has become more prevalent and more geographically widespread, affecting the lives of millions worldwide. In recent years, terrorist groups such as Da’esh, Al-Qaida, and their affiliates have continued to exploit instability, fragility, and conflict to advance their agendas.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT):
“The manner in which these groups misuse and abuse developments in technological innovation to advance their agendas is also concerning. This includes the use of online video games and adjacent platforms to groom and recruit members, propagandize, communicate, and even train for terrorist acts.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Weixiong Chen, Acting Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED):
“We are also seeing an increase in threats from terrorism on the basis of xenophobia, racism, and other forms of intolerance.”
8. Med shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Weixiong Chen, Acting Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED):
“Those groups have become more transnational in nature. They have forged strong links across borders and built robust networks, exploiting virtual platforms where they exchange views, radicalize others into terrorism, recruit and support one another financially and operationally. Against this background, criminal justice actors have a critical role to play in addressing those threats in a meaningful manner.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. Pan left, Jaishankar walking to the stakeout
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs, India:
“Terrorism doesn't only extract the cost in human lives, but it leaves behind scars and trauma for those who survive it.”
13. Close up, cameraman, camera
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs, India:
“Any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of the motivation when whenever, wherever, and bar whomsoever they're committed.”
15. Pan right, Jaishankar leaving the stakeout
The Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counterterrorism (UNOCT), Vladimir Voronkov, said, “Despite continuing leadership losses by Al-Qaida and Da’esh, terrorism, in general, has become more prevalent and more geographically widespread, affecting the lives of millions worldwide.”
Addressing the Security Council today (15 Dec) on the threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts, Voronkov stated that in recent years, terrorist groups such as Da’esh, Al-Qaida, and their affiliates have continued to exploit instability, fragility, and conflict to advance their agendas.
This has been the case, particularly in West Africa and the Sahel, he added, where the situation remains urgent as terrorist groups strive to expand their area of operations.
The activities of such groups have also contributed to the deteriorating security situation in other parts of the continent, particularly in Central and Southern Africa.
Voronkov also noted that in Afghanistan, the sustained presence of terrorist groups continues to pose serious threats to the region and beyond, as some groups maintain ambitions to conduct external operations.
Moreover, he said that it is concerning that the de facto authorities have failed to sever long-standing ties with terrorist groups sheltering in the country, despite this Council’s demands that they do so.
He explained that terrorist groups in these and other contexts often pursue diverse agendas through different strategies, often adapting opportunistically.
They do so in part by resorting to illicit financing methods and other criminal activities, posing difficult challenges for coordinated responses by Member States.
Others have morphed into or grafted themselves onto insurgencies that occupy territory and purport to assume state responsibilities.
UNOCT’S Under-Secretary-General continued, “The manner in which these groups misuse and abuse developments in technological innovation to advance their agendas is also concerning. This includes the use of online video games and adjacent platforms to groom and recruit members, propagandize, communicate, and even train for terrorist acts.”
In this regard, he welcomed the adoption by consensus of the Delhi Declaration at the special meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Committee held by India in October.
Also briefing the Council, Weixiong Chen, Acting Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), said, “We are also seeing an increase in threats from terrorism on the basis of xenophobia, racism, and other forms of intolerance.”
CTED’s Acting Executive Director states that those groups have become more transnational.
He explained, “They have forged strong links across borders and built robust networks, exploiting virtual platforms where they exchange views, radicalize others into terrorism, recruit, and support one another financially and operationally.”
Against this background, “criminal justice actors have a critical role to play in addressing those threats in a meaningful manner,” he stated.
Following the Security Council meeting, the External Affairs Minister of India, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, told journalists, "Terrorism doesn't only extract the cost in human lives, but it leaves behind scars and trauma for those who survive it.”
He also said, “Any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of the motivation when whenever, wherever, and bar whomsoever they're committed.”
