Security Council resolution 2462 (2019) [on prevention and suppression of the financing of terrorism]
Symbol: S/RES/2462 (2019)
Date: 2019-03-28
Status: adopted
Agenda: S/74 [31] TERRORISM
S/74 [10] INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
S/ X Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.
Subjects: 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|UN. Security Council Committee Established pursuant to Resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da'esh), Al-Qaida and Associated Individuals, Groups, Undertakings and Entities|UN. Office of Counter-Terrorism|UN Office on Drugs and Crime|Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering|Charter of the United Nations (1945). Chapter VII|TERRORISM|COUNTER-TERRORISM|TERRORISM FINANCING|SANCTIONS|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/2462 (2019)
               Security Council                                                  Distr.: General
                                                                                 28 March 2019




               Resolution 2462 (2019)
               Adopted by the Security Council at its 8496th meeting, on
               28 March 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), 2249 (2015), 2253 (2015), 2322 (2016), 2331 (2016), 2341
               (2017), 2347 (2017), 2354 (2017), 2368 (2017), 2370 (2017), 2388 (2017), 2395
               (2017), 2396 (2017) and its relevant presidential statements,
                     Reaffirming that terrorism in all forms and manifestations constitutes one of the
               most serious threats to international peace and security and that any acts of terrorism
               are criminal and unjustifiable regardless of their motivations, whenever, wherever and
               by whomsoever committed,
                     Stressing the primary responsibility of Member States in countering terrorist
               acts and reiterating their obligation to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorist
               acts as well as its call upon all States to become party to the international counter -
               terrorism conventions and protocols as soon as possible, including the International
               Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, and to consider, as
               appropriate, ratifying, acceding to, and implementing other relevant international
               conventions to support international cooperation in criminal matters, such as t he
               UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto,
                     Reminding all States of their obligation to ensure that any person who
               participates in the financing, planning, preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts or
               in supporting terrorist acts is brought to justice and ensure that, in add ition to any
               other measures against them, such terrorist acts are established as serious criminal
               offences in domestic laws and regulations and that the punishment duly reflects the
               seriousness of such terrorist acts,
                     Reaffirming that Member States must ensure that any measures taken to counter
               terrorism comply with all their obligations under international law, in particular
               international human rights law, international refugee law, and international
               humanitarian law, underscoring 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-terrorism
               effort, noting the importance of respect for the rule of law so as to effectively prevent
               and combat terrorism, and noting that failure to comply with these and other
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               the factors contributing to increased radicalization to violenc e and fosters a sense of
               impunity,
                    Noting with grave concern that terrorists and terrorist groups raise funds through
               a variety of means, which include but are not limited to abuse of legitimate
               commercial enterprise, exploitation of natural resources, ab use of non-profit
               organizations, donations, crowdfunding and proceeds of criminal activity, including
               but not limited to : kidnapping for ransom, extortion, the illicit trade and trafficking
               in cultural property, trafficking in persons, including for the p urpose of sexual
               exploitation, drug trafficking and the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons,
                     Further noting with grave concern that terrorists, including foreign terrorist
               fighters, and terrorist groups may move and transfer funds, including th rough
               financial institutions, abuse of legitimate businesses and non-profit organizations,
               including as front businesses and organizations and cash-couriers, as well as through
               the use of emerging payment methods, such as prepaid cards and mobile -payments or
               virtual-assets,
                     Expressing its concern that terrorists can benefit from transnational organized
               crime as a source of financing or logistical support, recognizing that the nature and
               scope of the linkages between terrorism and transnational organized cr ime vary by
               context, and emphasizing the need to coordinate efforts at the local, national, regional,
               sub regional and international levels to respond to this challenge, in accordance with
               international law,
                     Reiterating its concern at the continuing use by terrorists and their supporters
               of information and communications technologies, in particular the Internet, to
               facilitate terrorist acts, as well as their use to incite, recruit, fund, or plan terrorist
               acts,
                    Recognizing that innovations in financial technologies, products and services
               may offer significant economic opportunities but also present a risk of being misused,
               including for terrorist financing,
                    Underscoring the central role of the United Nations, in particular its Security
               Council, in the fight against terrorism and stressing the essential role of the Financial
               Action Task Force (FATF) in setting global standards for preventing and combatting
               money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing and its Global
               Network of FATF-style regional bodies (FSRBs) and taking note with appreciation of
               the “FATF Consolidated Strategy on Combating Terrorist Financing” and its
               operational plan,
                     Encouraging Member States to actively cooperate with FATF, including by
               contributing to its monitoring of terrorist financing risks,
                     Expressing its commitment to continue supporting efforts to deny terrorist
               groups’ access to funding and financial services through the ongoing work of the
               United Nations counter-terrorism bodies and the FATF and its FSRBs to improve
               anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing frameworks worldwide,
               particularly their implementation,
                     Welcoming the adoption by its Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Addendum
               to the Madrid Guiding Principles on Foreign Terrorist Fighters ( S/2018/1177), which
               contains, inter alia, specific recommendations on countering the financing of
               terrorism and stressing the importance of full and effective implementation of such
               principles,
                     Commending efforts undertaken at the national, regional and multilateral levels
               to foster international cooperation to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism,


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                Noting with appreciation the holding of the conference entitled “No Money for
           Terror” in Paris on 25–26 April 2018 as well as its final declaration and looking
           forward to the upcoming conference to be held in Australia in 2019,
                Reaffirming that sanctions are an important tool under the Charter of the United
           Nations in the maintenance and restoration of international peace and security,
           including in countering terrorism and terrorism financing,
                 Noting with concern that many Member States have not effectively enacted and
           enforced the prohibition described in paragraph 1 (d) of resolution 1373, and that the
           provision of financial or other related services to terrorist organizations and
           individual terrorists, even in the absence of a link to a specific terrorist act, furthers
           their ability to engage in terrorist acts,
                 Recognizing the significant need to build and strengthen capacities of Member
           States, upon their request and with a view to supporting national ownership to more
           effectively counter terrorism and terrorist financing and to make better use of existing
           international instruments and mechanisms,
                Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,
                 1.    Reaffirms its resolution 1373 (2001) and in particular its decisions that all
           States shall prevent and suppress the financing of terrorist acts and refrain from
           providing any form of support, active or passive, to entities or persons involved in
           terrorist acts, including by suppressing recruitment of members of terrorist groups
           and eliminating the supply of weapons to terrorists;
                 2.    Emphasizes its decision in resolution 1373 that all Member States shall
           criminalize the wilful provision or collection, by any means, directly or indirectly, o f
           funds by their nationals or in their territories with the intention that the funds should
           be used, or in the knowledge that they are to be used, in order to carry out terrorist
           acts; and its decision in resolution 2178 that all Member States shall establ ish serious
           criminal offenses regarding the travel, recruitment, and financing of foreign terrorist
           fighters;
                 3.    Highlights that the obligation regarding the prohibition in paragraph 1 (d)
           of resolution 1373 applies to making funds, financial assets or e conomic resources or
           financial or other related services available, directly or indirectly, for the benefit of
           terrorist organizations or individual terrorists for any purpose, including but not
           limited to recruitment, training, or travel, even in the abse nce of a link to a specific
           terrorist act;
                 4.    Strongly urges all States to implement the comprehensive international
           standards embodied in the revised Forty FATF Recommendations on Combating
           Money Laundering, and the Financing of Terrorism and Proliferat ion and its
           interpretive notes;
                 5.    Decides that all States shall, in a manner consistent with their obligations
           under international law, including international humanitarian law, international
           human rights law and international refugee law, ensure that th eir domestic laws and
           regulations establish serious criminal offenses sufficient to provide the ability to
           prosecute and to penalize in a manner duly reflecting the seriousness of the offense
           the wilful provision or collection of funds, financial assets or economic resources or
           financial or other related services, directly or indirectly, with the intention that the
           funds should be used, or in the knowledge that they are to be used for the benefit of
           terrorist organizations or individual terrorists for any p urpose, including but not
           limited to recruitment, training, or travel, even in the absence of a link to a specific
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                     6.     Demands that Member States ensure that all measures taken to counter
               terrorism, including measures taken to counter the financing of terrorism as provided
               for in this resolution, comply with their obligations under international law, including
               international humanitarian law, international human rights law and international
               refugee law;
                     7.   Calls upon Member States to conduct financial investigations in terrorism
               related cases and to seek ways to address the challenges in obtaining evidence to
               secure terrorist financing convictions;
                     8.     Further calls upon Member States to more effectively investigate and
               prosecute cases of terrorist financing and to apply, as appropriate, effective,
               proportionate, and dissuasive criminal sanctions to individuals and entities convicted
               of terrorist financing activity;
                      9.   Underscores the need to ensure all Member States are in full compliance
               with the measures imposed by the Security Council in resolution 2368 (2017) and
               recalls that the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team mandate includes
               gathering information on instances of reported non-compliance with the sanctions
               measures imposed in resolution 2368 (2017), including by collating information from
               all relevant sources and that such reporting should be discussed in the Committee;
                    10. Stresses the need for effective implementation of asset freezing
               mechanisms pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001), including considering third party
               requests from other States;
                    11. Calls on States to consider making publicly available their national or
               regional asset freezing lists pursuant to resolutions 1373 (2001), 1267 (1999), 1989
               (2011) and 2253 (2015);
                    12. Stresses the need for robust implementation of the measures outlined in
               paragraph 1 of resolution 2368 (2017) and urges all States to participate actively in
               implementing and updating the ISIL (Da’esh) & Al-Qaida Sanctions List and to
               consider including, when submitting new listing requests, individuals and entities
               involved in the financing of terrorism;
                    13. Calls on States to invest resources in the implementation of sanctions
               regimes pursuant to resolutions 1373 (2001), 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253
               (2015), and in seizure of funds in the course of investigations;
                     14. Urges all States to assess specifically their terrorist financing risk and to
               identify economic sectors most vulnerable to terrorist financing, including but not
               limited to non-financial services, such as, inter alia, the construction, commodities
               and pharmaceutical sectors, in line with FATF standards and welcomes guidance
               issued by the United Nations, including the “UNODC Guidance manual for Member
               States on terrorist financing risk assessments” and the FATF in that regard;
                     15. Urges Member States which have not yet done so to establish operationally
               independent and autonomous financial intelligence units with a view to strengthening
               their framework to prevent and counter the financing of terrorism, in line with FATF
               standards;
                     16. Calls upon Member States to reinforce the access to information and
               terrorist financing analytical capacity of their financial intelligence units, including
               by developing together with competent authorities dedicated risk indicators, and by
               cooperating with the private sector concerning the evolution of the trends, source and
               methods of terrorist financing;
                    17. Urges Member States to establish or strengthen, at the national level, a
               framework allowing competent national authorities, in particular financial


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           intelligence units, intelligence services, law enforcement agencies, prosecutorial
           and/or judicial authorities, to gather and share information on the financing of
           terrorism;
                 18. Encourages Member States to build the capacity of their financial
           oversight and regulatory systems in order to deny terrorists the space to exploit, raise
           and move funds, including by ensuring an effective implementation of reporting and
           disclosure requirements by the private sector as well as by taking into account the
           dedicated country assessments of relevant entities such as the Counter-Terrorism
           Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) and the FATF and its Global Network;
                 19. Calls upon Member States to intensify and accelerate the timely exchange
           of relevant operational information and financial intelligence regarding actions or
           movements, and patterns of movements, of terrorists or terrorist networks, including
           Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs) and FTF returnees and relocators, in compliance
           with international law, including international human rights law, and domestic law,
           including by:
                 (a) Ensuring that competent authorities can use financial intelligence shared
           by financial intelligence units, and relevant financial information obtained from the
           private sector, in compliance with international law, including international human
           rights law;
                 (b) Enhancing the integration and use of financial intelligence in terrorism
           related cases, including through enhanced inter-agency coordination;
                (c) Using financial intelligence and financial footprints as a tool to detect
           networks of terrorists and their financiers;
                 (d) Considering the establishment of a mechanism by which competent
           authorities can obtain relevant information, including but not limited to bank
           accounts, to facilitate the detection of terrorist assets, in compliance with
           international law, including international human rights law;
                20. Calls upon all States to enhance the traceability and transparency of
           financial transactions, in compliance with international law, including international
           human rights law and humanitarian law, including through:
                (a) Fully exploiting the use of new and emerging financial and regulatory
           technologies to bolster financial inclusion, and to contribute to the effective
           implementation of AML/CFT measures;
                (b) ensuring that financial institutions, including within the same financial
           group, as well as designated non-financial businesses and professions (DNFBPs), can
           share information for the purposes of mitigating money laundering and terrorist
           financing risks and supplying domestic competent authorities with comprehensive
           information on criminal schemes, consistent with the home country requirements;
                 (c) assessing the risks associated with the use of cash and bearer negotiable
           instruments, including the risk of illicit cross-border transportation of cash, as well
           as other financial products, including value stored and prepaid cards and informal
           value transfer system providers (including hawalas) and taking appropriate measures
           to address such risks;
                (d) assessing and addressing potential risks associated with virtual assets and
           as appropriate, the risks of new financial instruments, including but not limited to
           crowd-funding platforms, that may be abused for the purpose of terrorist financing
           and taking steps to ensure that providers of such assets are subject to AML/CFT
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                    21. Welcomes in that regard FATF’s ongoing work concerning virtual assets
               and virtual assets service providers, including its October 2018 amendments to the
               FATF standards and statement on the Regulation of Virtual Assets, and encourages
               Member States to apply risk-based anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist
               financing regulations to virtual asset service providers, and to identify effective
               systems to conduct risk-based monitoring or supervision of virtual asset service
               providers;
                     22. Encourages competent national authorities, in particular financial
               intelligence units and intelligence services, to continue to establish effective
               partnerships with the private sector, including financial institutions, the Financial
               technology industry and internet and social media companies, in particular with
               regards to the evolution of trends, sources and methods of the financing of terrorism;
                     23. Recognizes the vital role played by non-profit organizations in national
               economies and social systems, calls on Member States to periodically conduct a risk
               assessment of its non-profit sector or update existing ones to determine the
               organizations vulnerable to terrorist financing and to inform the implementation of a
               risk based approach, encourages Member States to work cooperatively with the
               non-profit sector in order to prevent abuse of such organiz ations including front
               organizations by and for terrorists, while recalling that States must respect human
               rights and fundamental freedoms and recalls the relevant recommendations and
               existing guidance documents of the FATF in that regard, in particular it s
               recommendation 8;
                    24. Urges States, when designing and applying measures to counter the
               financing of terrorism, to take into account the potential effect of those measures on
               exclusively humanitarian activities, including medical activities, that are ca rried out
               by impartial humanitarian actors in a manner consistent with international
               humanitarian law;
                     25. Encourages Member States to improve efforts and take decisive action to
               identify cases of trafficking in persons and in cultural property that fina nce terrorism
               with a view to holding those responsible accountable and to provide, as appropriate,
               the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team with relevant information
               pertaining to such cases;
                     26. Reiterates its call upon Member States to prevent terrorists from benefiting
               directly or indirectly from the payment of ransoms or from political concessions and
               encourages them to increase cooperation and information sharing to that end;
                    27. Urges States that have not already done so to adopt and implement the
               necessary legislative or other measures to establish as criminal offences under their
               domestic law the illegal manufacture, possession, stockpiling and trade of small arms
               and light weapons within their areas of jurisdiction in order to ensure that those
               engaged in such activities can be prosecuted;
                    28. Calls upon Member States to strengthen international cooperation to
               prevent and counter the financing of terrorism, including by:
                     (a) ensuring the effective exchange of relevant financial intelligence through
               bilateral and multilateral mechanisms and ensuring that competent authorities are able
               to exercise their powers to respond to international cooperation requests effectively;
                     (b) ensuring that their FIUs serve as the central agency for the receipt of
               suspicious transaction reports and other information relevant to money laundering,
               predicate offences and terrorist financing filed by reporting entities and that they
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           or upon request, information and the results of its analysis to relevant competent
           authorities;
                (c) enhancing cross-border cooperation among and between customs and tax
           authorities, as well as improving the coordination of international police and customs
           operations;
                (d) improving the quality of the information shared internationally between
           financial intelligence units on the financing of FTFs, including FTF returnees and
           relocators, small cells, and individual terrorists on the activities of terrorist
           fundraisers, collectors and facilitators by fully implementing FATF standards in that
           regard;
                 29. Reaffirms that all States shall afford one another the greatest measure of
           assistance in connection with criminal investigations or criminal proceedings relating
           to the financing or support of terrorist acts;
                 30. Encourages Member States to help to build the capacity of other Member
           States, upon their request, to address the threat posed by the financing of terrorism;
                31. Encourages Member States to make the best use of INTERPOL policing
           capabilities, such as relevant databases and analytical files, in order to prevent and
           counter the financing of terrorism;
                 32. Encourages Member States as well as the United Nations, in particular the
           United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), to continue conducting
           research and collecting information to better understand the nature and scope of the
           links that may exist between terrorism, in particular the financing of terrorism, and
           transnational organized crime;
                 33. Requests United Nations entities, particularly the UN Office on Co unter
           Terrorism (OCT) and UNODC to continue to cooperate with Member States and to
           continue to provide, upon their request as well as on the basis of gaps in
           implementation and capacity identified by the CTED reports, in particular where they
           relate to FATF and FSRBs mutual evaluation reports, technical assistance and
           capacity-building to help them to fully implement their respective international
           obligations to prevent and combat the financing of terrorism;
                 34. Calls upon UNOCT, in close cooperation with UNODC and in
           consultation with CTED, the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team
           pursuant to resolutions 1526 (2004) and 2253 (2015) and other Global Compact
           entities as well as international financial institutions such as the International
           Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank and other stakeholders, including the
           FSRBs, to enhance coordination with the aim of delivering integrated technical
           assistance on counter-terrorist financing measures, including assistance that will
           improve the capacity of Member States, upon their request, to implement this
           resolution;
                 35. Requests CTED, in accordance with resolution 2395, to strengthen its
           assessment process relating to countering the financing of terrorism, including
           through targeted and focused follow-up visits as complements to its comprehensive
           assessments and to provide, annually, on the basis of its reporting and in consultation
           with the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, to the UN Office on
           Counter Terrorism (UNOCT), through the Counterterrorism Committee, a thematic
           summary assessment of gaps identified and areas requiring more action to implement
           key counterterrorism financing provisions of relevant UN Security Council
           resolutions for the purpose of designing targeted technical assistance and capacity -
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               Regional Bodies (FSRBs) mutual evaluation reports and to ensure that it allocates the
               necessary resources to carry out these tasks;
                     36. Requests the Counter-Terrorism Committee and the Committee
               established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) to hold,
               within 12 months, a joint special meeting on terrorist financing threats and trends as
               well as on the implementation of the provisions of this resolution;
                     37. Requests CTED and the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring
               Team to prepare, ahead of the joint special meeting, a report on actions taken by
               Member States to disrupt terrorist financing and in this regard, and invites Member
               States to submit to them in writing, by the end of 2019, information on actions taken
               to disrupt terrorist financing;
                    38.   Decides to remain seized of this matter.




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