Kazakhstan Speaks at UN Security Council Briefing on Threats to International Peace and Security
NEW YORK, November 28, 2017 – Kairat Umarov, the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations, as the Chairman of the Sanctions Committee 1267 concerning IGIL (DAIS) and Al Qaeda, was one of the keynote speakers at the briefing of the Security Council on threats to international peace and security, It was created by terrorist acts dedicated to foreign terrorist fighters.
K. Umarov informed the members of the Security Council of the Organization about the work in 2017 of the said sanctions committee, whose activity is to monitor compliance with sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council on the above-mentioned international terrorist organizations and individuals associated with terrorist activities, such as travel ban, assets freeze and arms embargo.
In the context of countering the threats stemming from the redeployment of foreign terrorist fighters from Syria and Iraq to other regions of the world, K. Umarov noted the activities of the Sanctions Committee aimed at enhancing the cooperation of the member states of the Organization with the 1267 sanctions regime, including through the names of individuals and names of organizations on the sanctions list.
In 2017, six open briefings on the work of this subsidiary body of the Security Council were held by the Chairman of the 1267 Committee in the headquarters of the Organization, including jointly with the Sanctions Committee of Libya and the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee on Combating Terrorism.
In addition, during the period from August to November this year, K. Umarov, as chairman of the Sanctions Committee, 1267 held high-level talks in Malaysia and Singapore, as well as in Afghanistan on terrorist threats and the practical use of sanctions measures of the UN Security Council to counter the spread of international terrorism . He also took part and delivered a report in October at the XVI Meeting of Heads of Special Services, Security and Law Enforcement Agencies in Krasnodar and in November as part of the Fifth Scientific and Practical Conference of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization “Combating Terrorism – Cooperation without Borders” in Tashkent.
Kazakhstan is a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the period 2017-2018 and heads three Sanctions Committees for IGIL (DAIS) and Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Somalia and Eritrea.
Press-service
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Republic of Kazakhstan
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