29 September 2001
Text: UN Security Council Anti-Terrorism Resolution
(Unanimous call for suppressing financing, improving international
cooperation) (1995)
(begin text)
Security Council SC/7158 4385th Meeting (Night)28 September 2001
SECURITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS WIDE-RANGING ANTI-TERRORISM
RESOLUTION;
CALLS FOR SUPPRESSING FINANCING, IMPROVING INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Resolution 1373 (2001) Also Creates Committee to Monitor
Implementation
Reaffirming its unequivocal condemnation of the terrorist acts that
took place in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania on 11
September, the Security Council this evening unanimously adopted a
wide-ranging, comprehensive resolution with steps and strategies to
combat international terrorism.
By resolution 1373 (2001) the Council also established a Committee of
the Council to monitor the resolution's implementation and called on
all States to report on actions they had taken to that end no later
than 90 days from today.
Under terms of the text, the Council decided that all States should
prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism, as well as
criminalize the wilful provision or collection of funds for such acts.
The funds, financial assets and economic resources of those who commit
or attempt to commit terrorist acts or participate in or facilitate
the commission of terrorist acts and of persons and entities acting on
behalf of terrorists should also be frozen without delay.
The Council also decided that States should prohibit their nationals
or persons or entities in their territories from making funds,
financial assets, economic resources, financial or other related
services available to persons who commit or attempt to commit,
facilitate or participate in the commission of terrorist acts. States
should also refrain from providing any form of support to entities or
persons involved in terrorist acts; take the necessary steps to
prevent the commission of terrorist acts; deny safe haven to those who
finance, plan, support, commit terrorist acts and provide safe havens
as well.
By other terms, the Council decided that all States should prevent
those who finance, plan, facilitate or commit terrorist acts from
using their respective territories for those purposes against other
countries and their citizens. States should also ensure that anyone
who has participated in the financing, planning, preparation or
perpetration of terrorist acts or in supporting terrorist acts is
brought to justice. They should also ensure that terrorist acts are
established as serious criminal offences in domestic laws and
regulations and that the seriousness of such acts is duly reflected in
sentences served.
By further terms, the Council decided that States should afford one
another the greatest measure of assistance for criminal investigations
or criminal proceedings relating to the financing or support of
terrorist acts. States should
also prevent the movement of terrorists or their groups by effective
border controls as well.
Also by the text, the Council called on all States to intensify and
accelerate the exchange of information regarding terrorist actions or
movements; forged or falsified documents; traffic in arms and
sensitive material; use of communications and technologies by
terrorist groups; and the threat posed by the possession of weapons of
mass destruction.
States were also called on to exchange information and cooperate to
prevent and suppress terrorist acts and to take action against the
perpetrators of such acts. States should become parties to, and fully
implement as soon as possible, the relevant international conventions
and protocols to combat terrorism.
By the text, before granting refugee status, all States should take
appropriate measures to ensure that the asylum seekers had not
planned, facilitated or participated in terrorist acts. Further,
States should ensure that refugee status was not abused by the
perpetrators, organizers or facilitators of terrorist acts, and that
claims of political motivation were not recognized as grounds for
refusing requests for the extradition of alleged terrorists.
The Council noted with concern the close connection between
international terrorism and transnational organized crime, illicit
drugs, money laundering and illegal movement of nuclear, chemical,
biological and other deadly materials. In that regard, it emphasized
the need to enhance the coordination of national, subregional,
regional and international efforts to strengthen a global response to
that threat to international security.
Reaffirming the need to combat by all means, in accordance with the
Charter, threats to international peace and security caused by
terrorist acts, the Council expressed its determination to take all
necessary steps to fully implement the current resolution.
The meeting, which began at 10:50 p.m., adjourned at 10:53 p.m.
Resolution
The full text of resolution 1373 (2001) reads as follows:
"The Security Council,
"Reaffirming its resolutions 1269 (1999) of 19 October 1999 and 1368
(2001) of 12 September 2001,
"Reaffirming also its unequivocal condemnation of the terrorist
attacks which took place in New York, Washington, D.C., and
Pennsylvania on 11 September 2001, and expressing its determination to
prevent all such acts,
"Reaffirming further that such acts, like any act of international
terrorism, constitute a threat to international peace and security,
"Reaffirming the inherent right of individual or collective
self-defence as recognized by the Charter of the United Nations as
reiterated in resolution 1368 (2001),
"Reaffirming the need to combat by all means, in accordance with the
Charter of the United Nations, threats to international peace and
security caused by terrorist acts,
"Deeply concerned by the increase, in various regions of the world, of
acts of terrorism motivated by intolerance or extremism,
"Calling on States to work together urgently to prevent and suppress
terrorist acts, including through increased cooperation and full
implementation of the relevant international conventions relating to
terrorism,
"Recognizing the need for States to complement international
cooperation by taking additional measures to prevent and suppress, in
their territories through all lawful means, the financing and
preparation of any acts of terrorism,
"Reaffirming the principle established by the General Assembly in its
declaration of October 1970 (resolution 2625 (XXV)) and reiterated by
the Security Council in its resolution 1189 (1998) of 13 August 1998,
namely that every State has the duty to refrain from organizing,
instigating, assisting or participating in terrorist acts in another
State or acquiescing in organized activities within its territory
directed towards the commission of such acts,
"Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,
"1.Decides that all States shall:
"(a)Prevent and suppress the financing of terrorist acts;
"(b)Criminalize the wilful provision or collection, by any means,
directly or indirectly, of funds by their nationals or in their
territories with the intention that the funds should be used, or in
the knowledge that they are to be used, in order to carry out
terrorist acts;
"(c)Freeze without delay funds and other financial assets or economic
resources of persons who commit, or attempt to commit, terrorist acts
or participate in or facilitate the commission of terrorist acts; of
entities owned or controlled directly or indirectly by such persons;
and of persons and entities acting on behalf of, or at the direction
of such persons and entities, including funds derived or generated
from property owned or controlled directly or indirectly by such
persons and associated persons and entities;
"(d)Prohibit their nationals or any persons and entities within their
territories from making any funds, financial assets or economic
resources or financial or other related services available, directly
or indirectly, for the benefit of persons who commit or attempt to
commit or facilitate or participate in the commission of terrorist
acts, of entities owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such
persons and of persons and entities acting on behalf of or at the
direction of such persons;
"2.Decides also that all States shall:
"(a)Refrain from providing any form of support, active or passive, to
entities or persons involved in terrorist acts, including by
suppressing recruitment of members of terrorist groups and eliminating
the supply of weapons to terrorists;
"(b)Take the necessary steps to prevent the commission of terrorist
acts, including by provision of early warning to other States by
exchange of information;
"(c)Deny safe haven to those who finance, plan, support, or commit
terrorist acts, or provide safe havens;
"(d)Prevent those who finance, plan, facilitate or commit terrorist
acts from using their respective territories for those purposes
against other States or their citizens;
"(e)Ensure that any person who participates in the financing,
planning, preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts or in
supporting terrorist acts is brought to justice and ensure that, in
addition to any other measures against them, such terrorist acts are
established as serious criminal offences in domestic laws and
regulations and that the punishment duly reflects the seriousness of
such terrorist acts;
"(f)Afford one another the greatest measure of assistance in
connection with criminal investigations or criminal proceedings
relating to the financing or support of terrorist acts, including
assistance in obtaining evidence in their possession necessary for the
proceedings;
"(g)Prevent the movement of terrorists or terrorist groups by
effective border controls and controls on issuance of identity papers
and travel documents, and through measures for preventing
counterfeiting, forgery or fraudulent use of identity papers and
travel documents;
"3.Calls upon all States to:
"(a)Find ways of intensifying and accelerating the exchange of
operational information, especially regarding actions or movements of
terrorist persons or networks; forged or falsified travel documents;
traffic in arms, explosives or sensitive materials; use of
communications technologies by terrorist groups; and the threat posed
by the possession of weapons of mass destruction by terrorist groups;
"(b)Exchange information in accordance with international and domestic
law and cooperate on administrative and judicial matters to prevent
the commission of terrorist acts;
"(c)Cooperate, particularly through bilateral and multilateral
arrangements and agreements, to prevent and suppress terrorist attacks
and take action against perpetrators of such acts;
"(d)Become parties as soon as possible to the relevant international
conventions and protocols relating to terrorism, including the
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of
Terrorism of 9 December 1999;
"(e)Increase cooperation and fully implement the relevant
international conventions and protocols relating to terrorism and
Security Council resolutions 1269 (1999) and 1368 (2001);
"(f)Take appropriate measures in conformity with the relevant
provisions of national and international law, including international
standards of human rights, before granting refugee status, for the
purpose of ensuring that the asylum seeker has not planned,
facilitated or participated in the commission of terrorist acts;
"(g)Ensure, in conformity with international law, that refugee status
is not abused by the perpetrators, organizers or facilitators of
terrorist acts, and that claims of political motivation are not
recognized as grounds for refusing requests for the extradition of
alleged terrorists;
"4.Notes with concern the close connection between international
terrorism and transnational organized crime, illicit drugs,
money-laundering, illegal arms-trafficking, and illegal movement of
nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly materials,
and in this regard emphasizes the need to enhance coordination of
efforts on national, subregional, regional and international levels in
order to strengthen a global response to this serious challenge and
threat to international security;
"5.Declares that acts, methods, and practices of terrorism are
contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations and that
knowingly financing, planning and inciting terrorist acts are also
contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations;
"6.Decides to establish, in accordance with rule 28 of its provisional
rules of procedure, a Committee of the Security Council, consisting of
all the members of the Council, to monitor implementation of this
resolution, with the assistance of appropriate expertise, and calls
upon all States to report to the Committee, no later than 90 days from
the date of adoption of this resolution and thereafter according to a
timetable to be proposed by the Committee, on the steps they have
taken to implement this resolution;
"7.Directs the Committee to delineate its tasks, submit a work
programme within 30 days of the adoption of this resolution, and to
consider the support it requires, in consultation with the
Secretary-General;
"8.Expresses its determination to take all necessary steps in order to
ensure the full implementation of this resolution, in accordance with
its responsibilities under the Charter;
"9.Decides to remain seized of this matter."
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