The resolution says the
Islamic State group “constitutes a global and unprecedented threat to
international peace and security” and expresses the council’s
determination “to combat by all means this unprecedented threat.”
The measure is the 14th terrorism-related resolution adopted yesterday by the UN’s most powerful body since 1999.
It
was adopted a week after violent extremists launched a coordinated gun
and bomb assault that killed 130 people in Paris which the Islamic State
claims it carried out.
It also comes eight days
after twin suicide bombings in Beirut killed 43 people, and three weeks
after a Russian airliner crashed over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula killing
all 224 people on board both attacks also claimed by IS.
The
resolution “unequivocally condemns in the strongest terms” these and
earlier “horrifying terrorist attacks” carried out by the Islamic State
this year in Sousse, Tunisia and Ankara, Turkey.
The
resolution calls on UN member states “that have the capacity to do so to
take all necessary measures” against the Islamic State group and all
other violent extremist groups “to eradicate the safe haven they have
established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria.”
This
does not constitute an authorisation for military action, however,
because the resolution is not drafted under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter
which is the only way the United Nations can give a green light to the
use of force.
The resolution urges UN member states
“to intensify their efforts to stem the flow of foreign terrorist
fighters in Iraq and Syria and to prevent and suppress the financing on
terrorism.”
In September 2014, U.S. President Barack
Obama chaired a Security Council meeting where members unanimously
adopted a resolution requiring all countries to prevent the recruitment
and transport of would—be foreign fighters preparing to join terrorist
organisations such as the Islamic State group.
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