UN General Assembly
2014

take measures to fight the takfiri approach and dry up its connected financial, ideological, organizational and military resources. We in Iraq are determined to cleanse our land of ISIS. We would like to emphasize that eliminating terrorism in Iraq will be an important step in protecting our region and in ridding the world of that danger. Here we welcome Security Council resolution 2170 (2014), adopted in August, which calls on Member States to prevent the support, financing and arming of ISIS terrorists, the Nusra Front and other entities related to Al-Qaida to prevent such flows into Iraq. We should also like to commend the Human Rights Council for its resolution condemning ISIS and establishing a fact-finding commission to investigate crimes against humanity committed by that group against all Iraqis. In the context of the international response to terrorism, and while we stress the importance of consolidating the value and culture of peace and coexistence in countries with multi-ethnic and multi-confessional societies, we in Iraq call for institutionalizing such a responsible position at the United Nations. Such institutions must be tasked