UN Security Council
2017

and entities, and reaffirming its resolve to address all aspects of that threat, Also noting with concern that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities are generating income from engaging directly or indirectly in the illegal excavation and in the looting and smuggling of cultural property from archaeological sites, museums, libraries, archives, and other sites, which is being used to support their recruitment efforts and to strengthen their operational capability to organize and carry out terrorist attacks, Noting with grave concern the serious threat posed to cultural heritage by landmines and unexploded ordnance, Strongly concerned about the links between the activities of terrorists and organized criminal groups that, in some cases, facilitate criminal activiti es, including trafficking in cultural property, illegal revenues and financial flows as well as money-laundering, bribery and corruption, Recalling Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) which requires that all States shall prevent and suppress the financing of terrorist acts and refrain from providing any form of support, active or passive, to individuals, groups,