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Criminalize the financing of terrorism; freeze without
delay any funds related to persons involved in acts of
terrorism; deny all forms of financial support for terrorist
groups; suppress the provision of safe haven, sustenance
or support for terrorists; share information with other
governments on any groups practicing or planning terrorist
acts; cooperate with other governments in the investigation,
detection, arrest, extradition and prosecution
of those involved in such acts; and criminalize active and
passive assistance or terrorism in domestic law and bring
violators to justice.
It is also relevant to note that another Security
Council resolution 1624 (2005) guiding this committee
states that countries must:
Prohibit by law incitement to commit a terrorist act
or acts; prevent such conduct and deny safe haven to any
persons with respect to whom there is credible and relevant
information giving serious reasons for considering
that they have been guilty of such conduct.
Following the same resolution, the SC also determinates
that countries must respect international law
first and foremost. Any act towards counter terrorism,
even though if it is only to prevent it, must be in conformity
with international law and respecting human
rights. The resolution also indicates that all Member
States must report to the CTC their actions towards
the implementation of resolution 1624 and measures
taken to prevent terrorism. The CTC must also, on a
regular basis, report its activities to the Security Council,
as said in resolution 1535 (2004). In this resolution,
the Council also established the Counter-Terrorism
Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), in order to
work side by side with the CTC, assisting it and assuring
that the resolution 1373 is being observed and implemented.
In order to verify its implementation, the
Committee, through the CTED, visits Member States
with the purpose of assuring that each country’s work
and efforts are compatible with the resolution. The
objective of these visits is so that the Committee can
be a close part of the measures taken by the States
to anticipate terrorism and improve the dialogue between
them, as stated in the “Framework document for
CTC visits to States in order to enhance the monitoring of
the implementation of resolution 1373.”
Terrorism affects the entire world and mostly its
people; when terrorists attack, they jeopardize the
lives of the population of the regions in question, and
therefore, this committee has a duty with the people. The
CTC also works towards protecting human rights. According
to Martin Scheinin, Special Rapporteur of the United
Nations Human Rights Council on the promotion and
protection of human rights while countering terrorism,
“[a]ny sustainable strategy for the effective combat of terrorism
must include promotion and protection of human rights
as an essential element.”
The population, however, has to consider the efforts
to avert terrorism as necessity. This committee has the
objective of achieving global security by restraining any
type of terrorism. However, in order to do so, the international
community has to engage in the process of minimizing
terrorism, step by step, along with CTC’s working
methods and strategies:
Through the work of this Committee, Member States are
for once really using this Organization in the way its founders
intended –- as an instrument through which to forge a global
defense against a global threat. (…) The Committee’s work
has already highlighted the close connections between terrorism
and various other activities that the United Nations has
been seeking to repress, or at least to bring under control. I am
thinking particularly of organized crime and the illicit traffic in
weapons, drugs, and other commodities such as diamonds.
HISTORy OF THE PROBLEM
It is known that there are many natural resources
around the world; and most of them are the main causes
of some human’s issues. Natural resources have captured
the attention of the international community and the diamonds
are considered one of them. They were formed at
least 990 million years ago, originated in a depth of 125-
200 kilometers below the Earth’s surface. It is because of
this depth diamonds are so precious, as only a few survive
the hazardous journey from the depths of the earth
to reach its surface. Due to the rarity of diamonds, it becomes
so valuable.
This committee aims to contribute to a discussion
about conflict diamonds, a topic that is high on the international
agenda. The focus on this debate is the African
continent and which are the influences that conflict
diamonds promote there. Since the end of the Cold War,
these minerals have helped to sustain several conflicts in
the region. According to the UNSC, it is from Angola, Si-
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