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Gregorian

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  1. “And as the hard-won consensus at the eighth review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy by the General Assembly last month (General Assembly resolution 77/298) showed, when Member States speak with one voice, we can make real and meaningful progress in the fight against terrorism.”

    2023-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9390 (2023) · source

  2. “The General Assembly does not provide the UNOCT with the mandate to investigate or ascertain the conduct of States and other actors, nor to determine what constitutes an act of terrorism, whether by a State, a group or an individual. For these reasons, I regret that I have nothing else to contribute to the substance of today’s meeting. However, I would note that both the Security Council and the General Assembly, on several occasions, have remarked that compliance with international law, including international human rights law and international humanitarian law, is the bedrock of the fight against terrorism. This includes full respect for all the obligations under the Charter of the United Nations. Any action that contravenes these higher-level legal obligations and moral imperatives undermines the global fight against terrorism.”

    2023-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9390 (2023) · source

  3. “The General Assembly mandate for the UNOCT includes five main functions: first, to provide leadership on the General Assembly counter-terrorism mandates entrusted to the Secretary-General from across the United Nations system; secondly, to enhance coordination and coherence across the Global Counter- Terrorism Coordination Compact entities, to ensure the balanced implementation of the four pillars of the United Nations global counter-terrorism strategy; thirdly, to strengthen the delivery of United Nations counter-terrorism capacity-building assistance to Member States; fourthly, to improve visibility, advocacy and resource-mobilization for United Nations counter- terrorism efforts; and fifthly, to ensure that due priority is given to counter-terrorism across the United Nations system, and that the important work on preventing violent extremism is firmly rooted in the Strategy.”

    2023-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9390 (2023) · source

  4. “The whole world owes the Security Council its thanks for these measures. Unfortunately, there has not yet been consensus at the General Assembly on the draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism, including in relation to how the definition of terrorism would precisely apply in situations of armed conflict. When the General Assembly established the Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), in 2017 (General Assembly resolution 71/291), it did so with the clear intention of helping Member States to implement the General Assembly’s 2006 Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (General Assembly resolution 60/288) and other relevant General Assembly and Security Council resolutions related to the fight against terrorism.”

    2023-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9390 (2023) · source

  5. “Mr. Gregorian: It is an honour to appear before the Security Council, which the Charter of the United Nations imbues with the responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The Security Council has had a long and admirable record of consensus when it comes to the issue of terrorism, including landmark resolutions related to Al-Qaida, in 1998 (resolution 1189 (1998)) and against terrorism as a whole, in 2001 (resolution 1377 (2001), annex), the establishment of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (resolution 1373 (2001)) and a series of resolutions against Da’esh that set forth practical measures that, as successive reports by the Secretary-General have recorded, have helped Member States to choke off the flow of foreign terrorist fighters to Da’esh and reduce its cash reserves.”

    2023-07-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9390 (2023) · source