Security Council resolution 2482 (2019) [on preventing and combating terrorism, including terrorism benefitting from transnational organized crime]
Symbol: S/RES/2482 (2019)
Date: 2019-07-19
Status: adopted
Agenda: S/74 [31] TERRORISM
S/74 [10] INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Subjects: UN. Office of Counter-Terrorism|UN Office on Drugs and Crime|UN. Security Council Committee Established pursuant to Resolution 1373 (2001) concerning Counter-Terrorism|UN. Security Council Committee Established pursuant to Resolution 1373 (2001) concerning Counter-Terrorism. Executive Directorate|TERRORISM|COUNTER-TERRORISM|TRANSNATIONAL CRIME|ORGANIZED CRIME|DRUG TRAFFIC|INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Votes in favour: 15
Votes against: 0
Abstentions: 0
Voting record:
country: BELGIUM
vote: yes
country: CHINA
vote: yes
country: CÔTE D'IVOIRE
vote: yes
country: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
vote: yes
country: EQUATORIAL GUINEA
vote: yes
country: FRANCE
vote: yes
country: GERMANY
vote: yes
country: INDONESIA
vote: yes
country: KUWAIT
vote: yes
country: PERU
vote: yes
country: POLAND
vote: yes
country: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
vote: yes
country: SOUTH AFRICA
vote: yes
country: UNITED KINGDOM
vote: yes
country: UNITED STATES
vote: yes

               United Nations                                                                       S/RES/2482 (2019)
               Security Council                                                   Distr.: General
                                                                                  19 July 2019




               Resolution 2482 (2019)
               Adopted by the Security Council at its 8582nd meeting, on
               19 July 2019

                    The Security Council,
                     Recalling its resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001), 1452 (2002), 1526 (2004),
               1617 (2005), 1624 (2005), 2129 (2013), 2133 (2014), 2170 (2014), 2178 (2014), 2195
               (2014), 2199 (2015), 2242 (2015), 2249 (2015), 2253 (2015), 2322 (2016), 2331
               (2016), 2341 (2017), 2347 (2017), 2354 (2017), 2368 (2017), 2370 (2017), 2388
               (2017), 2395 (2017), 2396 (2017), 2462 (2019), 2467 (2019) and its relevant
               presidential statements, including PRST/2018/9,
                     Reaffirming the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by
               the 1972 Protocol, the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, the United
               Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
               Substances of 1988, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
               Crime of 2000 and the Protocols thereto, the United Nations Convention against
               Corruption of 2003, and the international counter-terrorism conventions and
               protocols,
                      Welcoming the ongoing efforts by the Conference of the Parties to the
               UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Conference of States Parties
               to the UN Convention against Corruption, UN Commission on Crime Prevention and
               Criminal Justice, and UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs to promote international
               cooperation against transnational organized crime, corruption, drug traffickin g ,
               trafficking in persons, money laundering, terrorism, and other crimes that may in
               some cases directly or indirectly support terrorism, as well as to assist Member States
               in this regard within their existing mandates,
                     Expressing its concern that terrorists can benefit from organized crime, whether
               domestic or transnational, as a source of financing or logistical support, recognizin g
               that the nature and scope of the linkages between terrorism and organized crime,
               whether domestic or transnational, vary by context, and emphasizing the need to
               coordinate efforts at the local, national, subregional, regional, and international levels
               to respond to this challenge, in accordance with international law, including by
               promoting international legal cooperation, where relevant,
                     Acknowledging, in this regard, that terrorists can benefit from organized crime,
               whether domestic or transnational, such as the trafficking in arms, drugs, artefacts,
               cultural property and trafficking in persons, as well as the illicit trade in natural
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               oil, illicit trafficking in wildlife and other crimes that affect the environment, as well
               as from the abuse of legitimate commercial enterprise, non -profit organizations,
               donations, crowdfunding and proceeds of criminal activity, including but not limit ed
               to kidnapping for ransom, extortion and bank robbery, as well as from transnational
               organized crime at sea,
                      Strongly condemning the continued flow of weapons, including small arms and
               light weapons, military equipment, unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and their
               components, and improvised explosive device (IED) components to and between ISIL
               (also known as Da’esh), Al-Qaida, their affiliates, and associated groups, illeg al
               armed groups and criminals, and encouraging Member States to prevent and disrupt
               procurement networks for such weapons, systems and components between ISIL (also
               known as Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and
               entities,
                     Emphasizing that the combined presence of terrorism, violent extremis m
               conducive to terrorism, and organized crime, whether domestic or transnational, may
               exacerbate conflicts in affected regions, and may contribute to undermining affected
               States, specifically their security, stability, governance, social and economic
               development, and noting that organized criminal groups and terrorists benefiting fro m
               organized crime, whether domestic or transnational, can, in some cases and in some
               regions, complicate conflict prevention and resolution efforts,
                    Seriously concerned by instances of terrorist groups, including those benefiting
               from organized crime, conducting attacks including those on United Nations
               personnel,
                     Reaffirming its commitment to sovereignty, territorial integrity and political
               independence of all States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, and
               stressing that Member States have the primary responsibility in countering terrorist
               acts and violent extremism conducive to terrorism,
                     Reaffirming that Member States must ensure that any measures taken to counter
               terrorism must comply with all their obligations under international law, in particular
               international human rights law, international refugee law and international
               humanitarian law, underscores that respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms
               and the rule of law are complementary and mutually reinforcing with effective
               counter-terrorism measures and are an essential part of a successful counter-terroris m
               effort, and notes the importance of respect for the rule of law so as to effectively
               prevent and combat terrorism, and further notes that failure to comply with these and
               other international obligations, including under the Charter of the United Nations, is
               one of the factors contributing to increased radicalization to violence and fosters a
               sense of impunity,
                     Underscoring the need of Member States to strengthen, where appropriate, their
               criminal justice, law enforcement and border-control capacities, and to develop their
               capacity to investigate, prosecute, disrupt, and dismantle trafficking networks to
               address the linkages between terrorism and organized crime, whether domestic or
               transnational,
                     Recalling its urge to Member States to fully implement the “Programme of
               Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Ligh t
               Weapons in All Its Aspects” and the International Tracing Instrument in order to assist
               in preventing terrorists from acquiring small arms and light weapons, in particular in
               conflict and post-conflict areas,
                     Encouraging Member States to collect relevant information and to further
               identify, analyze and counter any existing, growing or potential links, in some cases,
               between organized crime, whether domestic or transnational, illicit drug -related

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           activities, money-laundering and the financing of terrorism, in order to enhance
           criminal justice responses to those crimes, and calling upon the United Nations Office
           on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), within its relevant mandates, to support, upon
           request, the efforts of Member States in that regard,
                 Stressing that the development and maintenance of fair and effective crimin al
           justice systems should be a fundamental basis of any strategy to counter terrorism and
           organized crime, whether domestic or transnational,
                 Noting the important contribution that public-private partnerships can make in
           efforts to prevent and combat terrorism, corruption and organized crime, whether
           domestic or transnational,
                 Acknowledging that prisons can serve as potential incubators for radicalizat io n
           to terrorism and terrorist recruitment, and that proper assessment and monitoring of
           persons convicted of terrorist offences is critical to mitigate opportunities for
           terrorists to attract new recruits, recognizing that prisons can also serve to rehabilitat e
           and reintegrate prisoners, where appropriate, and also recognizing that Member States
           may need to continue to engage with offenders after release from prison to avoid
           recidivism, in accordance with relevant international law and taking into
           consideration, where appropriate, the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for
           the Treatment of Prisoners, or “Nelson Mandela Rules ”,
                 Recalling the importance for Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED)
           to include in CTED’s country assessments, as appropriate, information regarding
           Member States efforts to address the issue of trafficking in persons and its link with
           sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations committed by terrorist groups
           as part of their strategic objectives and ideology, and used as a tactic by certain parties
           to armed conflict, including non-state armed groups designated as terrorist groups,
                 Recalling the Madrid Guiding Principles on Foreign Terrorist Fighters, including
           the recently adopted Addendum, (S/2018/1177), and stressing the importance of full
           and effective implementation of such principles,
                 Noting recent developments and initiatives at the international, regional and
           subregional levels to prevent and suppress international terrorism and organized
           crime, whether domestic or transnational, including the essential role of the Financial
           Action Task Force (FATF) and its Global Network of FATF-style regional bodies, as
           well as the work of the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), in particular the
           adoption of The Hague Good Practices on the Nexus between Transnational
           Organized Crime and Terrorism,
                 1.    Calls upon Member States to enhance coordination of efforts at all levels
           in order to strengthen a global response to linkages between international terroris m
           and organized crime, whether domestic or transnational, which constitute a serious
           challenge and a threat to international security;
                  2.    Calls upon Member States to continue to conduct research and collect
           information to enhance knowledge of and better understand the nature and scope of
           the linkages that may exist between terrorism and organized crime, whether domestic
           or transnational, to intensify and accelerate the timely exchange of relevant
           operational information and financial intelligence regarding actions, movements and
           patterns of movements of terrorists or terrorist networks, including foreign terrorist
           fighters, in accordance with domestic and international law;
                3.    Further stresses the importance of good governance and the need to fight
           against corruption, money-laundering and terrorist financing, in particular through
           the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational
           Organized Crime (2000), the United Nations Convention against Corruption (2003),

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               the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (1999)
               and the comprehensive international standards set forth in the FATF revised Forty
               Recommendations on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terroris m
               and Proliferation, including by adopting and effectively implementing leg islative and
               regulatory measures, to enable the competent domestic authorities to freeze or seize,
               confiscate and manage criminal assets, in order to combat illicit finance including
               terrorist financing and money-laundering;
                     4.    Calls upon Member States to strengthen their efforts as well as
               international and regional cooperation to counter the threat to the international
               community posed by the illicit cultivation, production, trafficking, and consumption
               of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, which can significantly contribute to
               the financial resources of terrorist groups, and to act in accordance with the principle
               of common and shared responsibility in addressing and countering the world drug
               problem, including through cooperation against the trafficking in illicit drugs and
               precursor chemicals, also underlining the importance of border managemen t
               cooperation, and welcomes in this context the continued efforts of the UNODC;
                      5.    Notes with concern that drug traffickers continue to exploit tools of
               modern commerce to traffic in precursors, pre-precursor chemicals and synthetic
               drugs, thereby contributing to the increased misuse of these drugs and the adverse
               consequences of their non-medical use, exploiting, for example, online markets for
               the illicit sale of such synthetic drugs, in particular synthetic opioids, in addition to
               exploiting the international mail system and express consignment carrier shipments
               to distribute such substances;
                     6.    Urges all States to ensure that their domestic laws and regulations establish
               serious criminal offenses sufficient to provide the ability to prosecute and penalize in
               a manner duly reflecting the seriousness of the offence of trafficking in persons;
                     7.    Calls upon Member States to investigate, disrupt and dismantle organized
               criminal networks involved in trafficking in persons in accordance with national
               legislation, including anti-money-laundering, anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws
               and, where appropriate, counter-terrorism laws;
                     8.   Further calls upon Member States, where appropriate, to review, amend
               and implement legislation, including for acts of sexual and gender-based violence, to
               ensure that all forms of trafficking in persons, including when it is committed in
               situations of armed conflict or by armed and terrorist groups for the purpose of
               financing terrorism or to serve any strategic goals of terrorist groups are addressed,
               and to consider establishing jurisdiction to end the impunity of offenders;
                      9.   Strongly urges all States to implement and strengthen compliance with the
               comprehensive international standards embodied in the revised Forty FATF
               Recommendations on Combating Money Laundering, and the Financing of Terroris m
               and Proliferation and its interpretive notes; and calls upon Member States to increase
               capacity to conduct proactive financial investigations to identify and disrupt
               trafficking in persons and identify potential linkages with terrorism;
                       10. Urges States that have not already done so, in order to prevent terrorists
               from acquiring weapons, to adopt and implement the necessary legislative or other
               measures to establish as criminal offences under their domestic law the followin g
               illicit activities within their areas of jurisdiction in order to ensure that those engaged
               in such activities can be prosecuted:
                     (a) illegal manufacture, possession, stockpiling and trade of all types of
               explosives, whether military or civilian, as well as other military or civilian materials
               and components that can be used to manufacture improvised explosive devic es,
               including detonators, detonating cords and chemical components,

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                 (b) trafficking of military and dual-use materials and equipment that could be
           used for the illegal manufacture of arms and armaments, including explosive devices;
                  11. Urges States to adopt legislative and other measures, consistent with
           domestic marking laws and regulations, including criminal measures, to prohibit the
           illegal manufacture of unmarked or inadequately marked small arms and light
           weapons, as well as the illicit falsification, obliteration, removal or alteration of the
           unique markings prescribed in the International Tracing Instrument;
                 12. Further encourages States to promote and strengthen border cooperation
           and regional and subregional coordination, as appropriate, through effective measures
           and enhanced exchange of information, consistent with domestic laws and
           regulations, between law enforcement agencies, customs, and export and import
           licensing authorities, with a view to eradicating and combating the illic it activities
           listed in paragraphs 10 and 11 across borders;
                13. Expresses concern at the illegal exploitation and trafficking of natural
           resources, such as precious metals and minerals like gold, silver, copper and
           diamonds, as well as timber, charcoal and wildlife, by armed groups, terrorist groups
           and criminal networks supporting them;
                 14. Encourages all States to continue efforts to end the illicit trade in natural
           resources, in particular in the gold sector, and to hold those complicit in the illicit
           trade accountable, as part of broader efforts to ensure that the illicit trade in natural
           resources is not benefiting sanctioned entities, terrorist groups, armed groups or
           criminal networks;
               15. Calls upon Member States, including through relevant central and
           competent authorities, to:
                 (a) strengthen border management, including by increasing awareness,
           training and capacity of relevant practitioners in border control, including with
           relevant organizations, to investigate and prosecute terrorists and terrorist groups and
           transnational organized criminals working with them, and to effectively identify and
           prevent their movement,
                 (b) consider establishing, in conformity with international law, appropriate
           laws and mechanisms that allow for the broadest possible international cooperation,
           including the appointment of liaison officers, police to police cooperation, the
           creation/use, when appropriate, of joint investigation mechanisms, and enhanced
           coordination of cross-border investigations in cases related to the linkages between
           terrorism and organized crime, whether domestic or transnational,
                 (c) implement obligations to collect and analyze Advance Passenger Information
           (API) and develop the ability to collect, process and analyse, in furtherance of
           International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards recommended practices,
           Passenger Name Record (PNR) data and to ensure PNR data is used by and shared
           with competent national authorities, with full respect for human rights and
           fundamental freedoms, which will help security officials make connections between
           individuals associated to organized crime, whether domestic or transnational, and
           terrorists, to stop terrorist travel and prosecute terrorism and organized crime,
           whether domestic or transnational, including by making use of capacity building
           programmes,
                 (d) develop the expertise of their Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) to
           analyze financial intelligence of suspected activity of organized crimes, whether
           domestic or transnational, that support terrorism, including the financing of terroris m,
           and encourages them to work together to develop that capacity, and exchange
           information, in this regard,

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                      (e) consider the ratification and implementation of global instruments as well
               as their participation in national, regional and global initiatives that aim to build
               capacity to prevent and counter the illicit trafficking, including through seaports and
               at sea, of natural resources, arms, drugs, artefacts and cultural property, as well as
               trafficking in persons, in order to prevent and counteract the linkages between
               terrorism at sea and organized crime, whether domestic or transnational,
                    (f) enhance, when appropriate, the exchange of information between public
               authorities and relevant private sector entities;
                     16. Urges Member States to ensure that all measures taken to counter terroris m
               comply with their obligations under international law, including international
               humanitarian law, international human rights law and international refugee law, and
               urges states to take into account the potential effects of counterterrorism measures on
               exclusively humanitarian activities, including medical activities, that are carried out
               by impartial humanitarian actors in a manner consistent with international
               humanitarian law;
                     17. Encourages Member States to engage relevant local communities and
               non-governmental actors in developing strategies to counter violent extremism as and
               when conducive to terrorism, as well as strategies to counter organized crime, whether
               domestic or transnational, address the conditions conducive to the spread of violent
               extremism, which can be conducive to terrorism, and organized crime, whether
               domestic or transnational, that may fund terrorism, including by empowering youth,
               families, women, religious, cultural and education leaders, and all other concerned
               groups of civil society;
                     18. Calls on Member States to increase the awareness, training and capacity
               of relevant practitioners in correctional systems on the linkages between terroris m
               and organized crime, whether domestic or transnational, including where perpetrators
               of petty crime may be exploited or recruited by terrorists, as perpetrators of such
               crimes can develop and have actively pursued those linkages and other networks in
               prison settings;
                     19. Further calls on Member States to strengthen the capacity of crimin al
               justice systems to combat the linkages, and ensure that investigators, prosecutors and
               legal professionals are trained to recognize such linkages between terrorism and
               organized crime, whether domestic or transnational;
                     20. Encourages Member States to take all appropriate actions to maintain a
               safe and humane environment in prisons, develop tools that can help address
               radicalization to violence and terrorist recruitment, in line with their obligation s under
               international law and taking into account, the relevant guidance developed by
               UNODC, and explore ways to prevent, within their prison systems, radicalization to
               violence, and to promote rehabilitation and reintegration of convicted terrorists, as
               well as to impede cooperation and transfer of skills and knowledge between terrorists
               and other criminals, while respecting international human rights law;
                     21. Recognizes the role of regional and subregional organizations and
               mechanisms, consistent with Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, in
               deepening the assessment of threats in their respective regions, in contributing to the
               effective implementation of Security Council resolutions, in strengthening the
               capacities of Member States, in facilitating technical assistance and informatio n
               sharing, and in contributing to national ownership and disseminating awareness;
                      22. Requests United Nations entities, particularly the United Nations Office
               for Counter Terrorism (UNOCT) and UNODC, as well as o ther Global Compact
               entities, to continue to provide technical assistance and capacity -building to Member
               States, upon their request, to support them in strengthening their response to linkages

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           between international terrorism and organized crime, whether d omestic or
           transnational, including by the development of tools that can help address
           radicalization to terrorism in prisons and assess the risks of terrorist recruitmen t ,
           consistent with international law, and encourages the Counter Terrorism Commit t ee
           (CTC), with the support of CTED, to continue working together to facilitate technical
           assistance and capacity building and to raise awareness in this area, in particular by
           strengthening its dialogue with States and relevant international, regional and
           subregional organizations and working closely, including by sharing informatio n ,
           with relevant bilateral and multilateral technical assistance providers;
                 23. Directs the CTC, with the support of the CTED and in coordination with
           other relevant UN entities to continue as appropriate, within their respective
           mandates, to identify and examine Member States efforts in impeding terrorist groups
           from benefitting from organized crime, whether domestic or transnational, with the
           aim of identifying good practices, gaps and vulnerabilities in this field, and, in this
           regard, requests CTED, in accordance with Security Council resolution 2395, and in
           cooperation with the UNOCT and UNODC, to integrate consideration of linkages of
           terrorism and organized crime, whether transnational or domestic, into its country
           assessments and analyses and identify emerging trends and gaps in this regard;
                24. Encourages Member States to make the best use of INTERPOL policing
           capabilities, including its array of investigative and analytical databases, in order to
           prevent and counter the linkages between terrorism and organized crime, whether
           domestic or transnational;
                 25. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Security Council, within
           twelve months, a joint report by the UNOCT and UNODC with inputs from the
           relevant entities of the United Nations system, including CTED, the Analytical
           Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, on actions taken by Member States and the
           Global Compact entities to address the issue of linkages between terrorism and
           organized crime, whether transnational or domestic;
                26.   Decides to remain seized of this matter.




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