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  1. “Similarly, it is very important that the work of the FATF nourish the process of reflection taking place in this very building. Too often, our institutions function in compartmentalized silos: diplomats speak to diplomats and financiers speak to financiers. Today is opportunity to do away with such compartmentalization. Finally, I would like to pay tribute to Jack Lew for taking the initiative of organizing this very first meeting of Security Council ministers of finance. I hope that this will serve as a fruitful precedent, because joint action is the key to effectiveness.”

    2015-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7587 (2015) · source

  2. “It has a clear vision of the shortcomings of its members in terms of the criminalization of the financing ofterrorism and of asset freezes. At the Group of 20 Summit held in Antalya, following the attacks of 13 November, Heads of state and Government entrusted a very clear mandate to us: the time for procrastination is over, and we must exert pressure on these countries to ensure that their mechanisms are made effective. I should like to thank the President of the FATF for having held in Paris this weekend a special meeting on the financing of terrorism. I hope that next February, during the next Group of 20 finance meeting, under the Chinese presidency, we will be able to take new, effective and strong measures. An effective FATF is a guarantee of the effective implementation of United Nations decisions.”

    2015-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7587 (2015) · source

  3. “In France, we have since January called for more vigilance to be shown by financial establishments, to raise their awareness of the risk of financing terrorist groups linked to Daesh. We have compiled a specific manual for organizations, and I have written to art- world professionals to point out to them the risks of Daesh being financed by trafficking in archaeological artefacts or artwork. I am gratified that the concept of cause for vigilance has been included in the resolution. We need to generalize this. This programme of work is a very dense one, and a great deal of effort lies before us. I wish to take the opportunity afforded us by this meeting to thank the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which is at the very heart of the mechanism to combat the financing of terrorism.”

    2015-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7587 (2015) · source

  4. “These forms of payment need to be better controlled, of course, but today those who want to transfer funds discreetly can also do so using innovative, very modern methods. Electronic and virtual currencies pose new risks, and I speak from recent and very painful experience. The attacks on 13 November in Paris were, to a large extent, financed through prepaid cards, which enabled anonymous transfers and payments to take place between Belgium and France. We must therefore tackle these shortcomings. It is certainly not a matter of prohibiting such innovative forms of payment, but we have to do away with their anonymous aspect. Finally, because the financing of terrorism is multifaceted and shape-shifting, all of society must mobilize. Private actors must be just as vigilant as our services.”

    2015-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7587 (2015) · source

  5. “In this respect, I see three challenges facing ministers of finance. First, we need to bolster the effectiveness of our financial intelligence-gathering. We must acquire the capabilities necessary to track suspect financial flows. We must better integrate our financial intelligence units with our intelligence and investigation services. There is also a need to considerably improve the exchange of information between the financial information intelligence units of our various countries. It is crucial that information be better shared in a more comprehensive and more rapid manner. Sometimes all that is needed is a few hours' warning to prevent an attack. There is a second challenge: that of anonymity. Those who wish to transfer funds discreetly can resort to archaic traditional methods such as cash, gold and precious metals.”

    2015-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7587 (2015) · source

  6. “The resolution provides us with the legal means to stop them, through freezing the assets of individuals or entities linked to such financing throughout the world. Now that the resolution has been adopted, we must implement it as rapidly as possible. It will have no impact unless it leads to new listings by the Security Council. There is a list ofindividuals and entities subject to sanctions because of their links with Al-Qaida. Now we are targeting both Al-Qaida and Daesh, so the list must grow. France attaches particular importance to the effective and speedy implementation of the resolution. Over and above Daesh, the other lesson to be drawn from the recent attacks is that terrorists continuously find new ways to finance themselves, including through small amounts. Our responsibility is to ensure that none of these goes unnoticed.”

    2015-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7587 (2015) · source

  7. “The singularity and power of this terrorist group stems from the fact that it has collected vast spoils of war from various sources. Smuggling, extortion, trafficking - Daesh will do anything to finance itself. We who are gathered here today - most of us are ministers of finance - have the task of understanding these financial flows and cutting them off. Everything possible must be done to financially choke off terrorism. Resolution 2253 (2015), which we have just adopted, offers concrete responses. It recognizes Daesh as the entity that must be combated. It identifies the specific financing methods used by this terrorist group: the trade in oil; trafficking in antiquities and artwork; kidnapping for ransom; extortion; and trafficking in human beings.”

    2015-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7587 (2015) · source

  8. “The terrorist threat is a threat not only to the whole world but also, more specifically, to the European project, given its consequences. Europeans must therefore be prepared to address it, and they have decided to do so. Tomorrow our colleagues from the ministries for foreign affairs will meet here to seek a solution to the Syrian crisis. They are more used to meeting in this Chamber than we are, but the same motivation inspires us and the same desire guides us: to ensure our common security and our common responsibility. Our colleagues contribute by finding solutions to armed conflicts, and we contribute by drying up the sources of financing for terrorism and thereby overcoming the terrorists whose acts they fuel.”

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  9. “Since June 2014, thousands of men and women around the world have lost their lives in acts of terrorism perpetrated by Daesh or groups that have sworn allegiance to Daesh. We are therefore all - and we all know this - affected. In the face of such blind savagery, we each have the duty to act. At such moments, we must each set aside our national differences and join forces to advance our common will. That common will must be expressed here, in the Security Council of the United Nations, because it is here that the story of all major crises has been written, and the crisis we face today is of such scope. This message was one that I shared last week in Brussels with my European colleagues, at the heart of this other collective and common endeavour that is the European Union.”

    2015-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7587 (2015) · source

  10. “Mr. Sapin (France) (spoke in French): I would like to thank the United States presidency for having taken the initiative of convening this meeting, which gives Ministers of Finance the honour of taking part in a meeting of the Security Council. One month ago, France was struck by terrorist attacks of an unprecedented scale on French soil. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the entire world that reached out to us with words and gestures of solidarity that touched us deeply. But France was not the only country to be attacked. No country has escaped, no continent has been spared, and with each passing month the list of barbaric attacks grows inexorably longer: Lebanon, Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt and now, most recently, the United States.”

    2015-12-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7587 (2015) · source