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The Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Role: Continuity and Innovation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Jane E. Stromseth*
Affiliation:
Joint Degree in International Studies and Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Abstract

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An Imperial Security Council? Implementing Security Council Resolutions 1373 and 1390
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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References

1 S.C. Res. 1373, paras. 1,2 (Sept 28, 2001), avilable at <http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/2001/sc2001.htm>.

2 S.C. Res. 1267, para. 6(d) (Oct. 15, 1999), available at <http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/1999/sc99.htm>.

3 S.C. Res. 1390, para. 5(a) (Jan. 16, 2002), available at <http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/2002/sc2002.htm>.

4 1 Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary 548 (Bruno Simma et al. eds., 2d ed. 2002).

5 Id. at 550-52.

6 See id. at 556-62.

7 See S.C. Res. 1132, para. 10(f) (Oct. 8, 1997),available at <http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/1997/scres97.htm>.

8 S.C. Res. 1455, paras. 11,14 (Jan. 17,2003), available at <http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/unsc_resolutions03.htm>.

9 Szasz, Paul C., The Security Council Starts Legislating, 96 AJIL 901 (2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 See International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, opened far signature Jan. 10, 2000, Ga. Res. 54/109 (Dec. 9, 1999), 39 ILM 270 (2000).

11 S.C. Res. 1373, supra note 1, para. 6.

12 For two very helpful discussions of the CTC’s work, see Rosand, Eric, Security Council Resolution 1373, the Counter-Terrorism Committee, and the Fight Against Terrorism, 97 AJIL 333 (2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Nicholas Rostow, , Before and After: The Changed UN Response to Terrorism Since September 11th, 35 Cornell Int’l L.J. 475, 482-86 (2002)Google Scholar.

13 See, e.g., Press Release, United Nations Security Council, Security Council Considers Terrorists Threats to International Peace, Security—Statement by Chairman of Counter-Terrorism Committee (Oct. 4,2002), available at <http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002/sc7522.doc.htm> [hereinafter Remarks of Jeremy Greenstock].

14 Id.; see also Rosand, supra note 12.

15 See Guidance Note (on the preparation of a summary of counterterrorism activities), Ctc Special Meeting (March 6, 2003), available at <http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/committees/1373>.

16 Id.

17 See Remarks of Jeremy Greenstock, supra note 13, at 6.

18 The directory, including a Matrix of Assistance, can be found at <http://www.un.org/sc/ctc.>

19 S.C. Res. 1373, supra note 1, para. 2(e).

20 For discussion of some potential challenges here, see Rosand, supra note 12.

21 Article 2(b) of the Convention, supra note 10, at 271, for example, prohibits the funding of acts “intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when die purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.”

23 See UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Proposals for “Further Guidance” for the Submission of Reports Pursuant to Paragraph 6 of Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001), available at <http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/committees/1373/ohchr2.htm>; UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Note to the Chair of the Counterterrorism Committee: A Human Rights Perspective on Counter-Terrorist Measures (Sept. 23, 2002), available at <http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/committees/1373/ohchrl.htm>.

24 See Jeremy Greenstock, Address at the Symposium on Combating International Terrorism: The Contribution of the United Nations (June 3—4, 2002), at 3-4, available at <http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/committees/1373/ViennaNotes.htm>.