The UN Security Council adopted a resolution here on Friday, calling on all
countries to coordinate efforts to prevent further terrorist attacks by the
Islamic State (IS) and similar groups.
The resolution has been not drafted under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter which empowers UN to give a green signal to the use of force.
The French-sponsored resolution has
- Urged UN member-states to intensify their efforts to stem the flow of foreign terrorist fighters in Iraq and Syria.
- Also called upon member-states to prevent and suppress the financing on terrorism groups and other extremist groups.
- Mentions ISIS group constitutes a global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security and expresses its determination to combat it by all means.
It should be noted that this is the 14th terrorism-related resolution adopted by the UNSC since 1999.
Background
The resolution was adopted by UNSC a week after ISIS extremists had launched a coordinated barbaric gun and bomb assault in Paris (France) on 13 November 2015 which had killed 130 people.
ISIS also has claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in Beirut (Lebanon) which had killed 43 people and for bombing of Russian airliner which was crashed over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula killing all 224 people on board.