The UN Security Council adopted a resolution, calling on all countries to coordinate efforts to prevent further terrorist attacks by the Islamic State (IS) and similar groups.
Unanimously adopting UN Security Council Resolution 2249 (2015), the Council unequivocally condemned the terrorist attacks perpetrated by ISIL — also known as Da’esh — on 26 June in Sousse, on 10 October in Ankara, on 31 October over the Sinaï Peninsula, on 12 November in Beirut and on 13 November in Paris, among others.
UN Security Council Resolution expressed its deepest condolences to the victims and their families, as well as to the people and Governments of Tunisia, Turkey, Russian Federation, Lebanon and France.
The unanimously-adopted resolution calls upon member states that have the capacity to do so to “take all necessary measures” to “redouble and coordinate their efforts to prevent and suppress terrorist acts” committed by IS and other terrorist groups.
The resolution “unequivocally condemns in the strongest terms” the horrifying IS terrorist attacks in Sousse, Ankara, Sinai, Beirut and Paris, and other attacks including hostage-taking and killing, terming “all such acts of terrorism as a threat to peace and security.”
UN Security Council Resolution also expresses sympathy to the people and governments of Tunisia, Turkey, Russia, Lebanon and France, and to all governments whose citizens were targeted in the above mentioned attacks and all other victims of terrorism.
IS has been conducting terrorist acts in different countries. The most recent ones that have shocked the world are the Paris attacks, in which about 130 people were killed and many more were injured.
Francois Delattre, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, speaks after UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling on all countries to coordinate efforts to prevent further terrorist attacks by the Islamic State (IS) and similar groups, at the UN headquarters in New York, Nov. 20, 2015.
What is Islamic State?
IS is a notoriously violent Islamist group which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq. It has declared its territory a caliphate – a state governed in accordance with Islamic law – under its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
What does it want?
IS demands allegiance from all Muslims, rejects national borders and seeks to expand its territory. It follows its own extreme version of Sunni Islam and regards non-believers as deserving of death.
