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STORY: UN / TERRORIST ACTS ISIL DAESH
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 08 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
08 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism:
“The terrorism landscape in West Africa and the Sahel remains challenging and complex. Terrorist groups continued to expand in the Sahel and inflict high casualties, undermining regional stability. Two of the Da’esh affiliates in the region, the Islamic State West Africa Province, and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahel, have expanded and consolidated their areas of operations. Should these groups extend their influence in northern littoral States, a vast territory stretching from Mali to northern Nigeria could fall under their effective control.”
4. Wide shot, Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism:
“ISIL-K has improved its financial and logistical capabilities in the past six months, including by tapping into Afghan and Central Asian diasporas for support. The group has also intensified its recruitment efforts. The activity of Da’esh and other terrorist groups in Afghanistan remains a significant concern. We must unite to prevent Afghanistan from once again becoming a hotbed of terrorism.”
6. Wide shot, Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism:
“Da’esh has also increased its operational pace in the Syrian Arab Republic, with a surge of attacks especially in the central desert area. Sustained counter-terrorism efforts will be required to prevent Da’esh from building upon these gains.”
8. Wide shot, United States Ambassador Robert A. Wood addressing Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert A. Wood, Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, United States:
“We remain particularly focused on the terrorism threat across Africa, outlined in the Secretary- General's report. We share his concern over developments in West Africa in the Sahel as well as in Central and Southern Africa, where the situation is fragile with the prospect of greater instability. We continue to provide our African partners essential assistance in degrading the capabilities and countering ISIS and Al Qaeda affiliates in a manner consistent with international law.”
10. Wide shot, Russian Federation Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky addressing Council
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Polyansky, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“Double standards in the fight against terrorism, interference on the pretext of counterterrorism in the internal affairs of sovereign states is now the calling card of Western countries who don't balk at using even international terrorist organizations for their own geopolitical purposes. Useful terrorists destabilize developing countries. After that the West allegedly in order to fight them shifts to the tried and tested tactic of destroying the state to plunder the natural and human resources of it.”
12. Wide shot, end of Council session
A top United Nations Counter-Terrorism official today (8 Aug) told the Security Council that two Da’esh affiliates in the West Africa and the Sahel region, “have expanded and consolidated their areas of operations,” and warned that “should these groups extend their influence in northern littoral States, a vast territory stretching from Mali to northern Nigeria could fall under their effective control.”
The Under-Secretary-General at the Office of Counter-Terrorism, Vladimir Voronkov, told the Council that “the terrorism landscape in the region “remains challenging and complex,” as groups such as the Islamic State West Africa Province and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahel continued to “inflict high casualties, undermining regional stability.”
In Afghanistan, Voronkov said, “ISIL-K has improved its financial and logistical capabilities in the past six months, including by tapping into Afghan and Central Asian diasporas for support.”
He said, “the activity of Da’esh and other terrorist groups in Afghanistan remains a significant concern,” stressing that “we must unite to prevent Afghanistan from once again becoming a hotbed of terrorism.”
The Under-Secretary-General said, “Da’esh has also increased its operational pace in the Syrian Arab Republic, with a surge of attacks especially in the central desert area,” and added that “sustained counter-terrorism efforts will be required to prevent Da’esh from building upon these gains.”
United States Ambassador Robert A. Wood, in his address to the Council, said thein the situation in the Sahel as well as in Central and Southern Africa “is fragile with the prospect of greater instability.”
Wood said the United States continues “to provide our African partners essential assistance in degrading the capabilities and countering ISIS and Al Qaeda affiliates in a manner consistent with international law.”
For his part, Russian Federation Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky told the Council that “double standards in the fight against terrorism, interference on the pretext of counterterrorism in the internal affairs of sovereign states is now the calling card of Western countries who don't balk at using even international terrorist organizations for their own geopolitical purposes.”
Polyansky said, “useful terrorists destabilize developing countries. After that the West allegedly in order to fight them shifts to the tried and tested tactic of destroying the state to plunder the natural and human resources of it.”
The Council was presented the Secretary-General’s 19th biannual strategic-level report on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) to international peace and security.