Letter Dated 14 January 2021 From The President Of The Security Council Addressed To The Secretary-General And The Permanent Representatives Of The Members Of The Security Council≪


  • Reference: S/2021/48
"First, it is essential that the fight against terrorism be carried out by legal means, in full adherence to international law, without affecting human rights and based on Article 1 Common to the Geneva Conventions, which stresses the need to respect and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law. Recently, however, we have noted with concern that certain measures taken to combat terrorism make humanitarian assistance more difficult. The Council must ensure that, in taking measures to prevent the financing of terrorism, the work of humanitarian organizations on the ground is not impeded. 

Secondly, the fight against terrorism will not be won on the battlefield; its outcome will depend on the success of the prevention strategies undertaken to address its root causes. That implies giving pride of place to the reweaving of the social fabric so as to prevent radicalization-related phenomena. According to the most recent CTED Trends Alert report, in the past five years attacks linked to persons affiliated with supremacist movements and terrorist organizations with farright ideologies have increased by 320 per cent. What is lacking is a more effective preventive strategy focusing on the individual, which should be one of the axes of international cooperation. 

Thirdly, greater control over transfers of small arms and light weapons is essential to implementing the provisions of paragraphs 2 (a) and 3 (a) of resolution 1373 (2001). So long as there continues to be free access to firearms, cycles of violence will continue.

 Fourthly, counter-terrorism strategies must be comprehensive and include a gender dimension. That implies both devoting the necessary attention to the situation of women and girls as victims and the use of their potential to effect social change, recognizing that the concept of new masculinities can promote a group’s espousing of a philosophy of brotherhood, which frequently underlies the ideologies of terrorist cells and supremacist groups. 

Fifthly, the international community must make better use of the available multilateral instruments and mechanisms in order to address the ever-changing S/2021/48 32/129 21-00482 transnational threat posed by terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. In that regard, there is also concern about the overreach involved in invoking, out of context, Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations in the fight against terrorism. We reiterate that only full respect for the rule of law, both nationally."


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