Sanctions
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Upcoming Issues in Sanctions and Counter-Terrorism Committees
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Upcoming issues in Sanctions Committee as of May 2007.
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Somalia Sanctions (751 Committee) See Somalia brief in this issue. Al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions (1267 Committee) The Committee is expected to take up the review, required under its recently revised guidelines, of names on the Consolidated List that have not been updated...
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Somalia Sanctions (751 Committee) The Committee is likely to begin receiving shortly applications under resolution 1744 for exemptions covering supply of material to support the Transitional Federal Government. These are likely to be proposed under a “no objection” procedure. Meetings may not...
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The Council took a step towards improving the effectiveness of UN sanctions in December. It brought to a conclusion the work of its Informal Working Group on General Issues of Sanctions. After nearly seven years of work, most recently under the leadership of Ambassador Adamantios Th. Vassilakis of Greece, the Council in resolution 1732 decided on 21 December that the Working Group had fulfilled its mandate.
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The mandates of the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee (known as the 1267 Committee) and its Monitoring Team are set to expire on 29 December. The Monitoring Team assists the Committee in monitoring implementation of the measures imposed by resolutions 1267, 1333, 1390 and 1617 on Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden, the Taliban and other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them.
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Given a challenging new mandate by the Council in December 2005 "to develop general recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness of United Nations sanctions", the Informal Working Group on General Issues of Sanctions, under the leadership of Greece, is expected to present its recommendations to the Council by the end of November.
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<November 2006 Chart in PDF Format • August 2006 Chart in PDF Format • July 2006 Chart in PDF Format Counter-Terrorism Committee (S/RES/1373) Resolutions S/RES/1373 (28 Sep 2001) S/RES/1377 (12 Nov 2001) S/RES/1456 (20 Jan 2003) S/RES/1535 (26 Mar 2004) S/RES/1566 (8 Oct 2004) S/RES/1624 (14 Sept 2005) Mandate Resolution 1373 established...
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The Council's review in October of the Liberia diamond sanctions will highlight international efforts to prohibit the trade in conflict diamonds. The illicit trade in diamonds has fuelled a number of conflicts in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire and Angola.
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August 2006 Chart in PDF Format • July 2006 Chart in PDF Format Counter-Terrorism Committee (S/RES/1373) Resolutions S/RES/1373 (28 Sep 2001) S/RES/1377 (12 Nov 2001) S/RES/1456 (20 Jan 2003) S/RES/1535 (26 Mar 2004) S/RES/1566 (8 Oct 2004) S/RES/1624 (14 Sept 2005) Mandate Resolution 1373 established obligations on all states to...
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In the month ahead, Council sanctions committees are expected to make progress on some of the recommendations of their expert panels, including the Somalia Monitoring Group, which issued a report on 4 May 2006; the Sudan Panel of Experts, which issued a report on 19 April 2006; the Al-Qaida/Taliban 1267 Sanctions Committee, which is due to send the Monitoring Team its report before the end of July; and the Democratic Republic of Congo Group of Experts.
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The 1267 Committee (the Al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions Committee) is actively working on the recommendations submitted in its Monitoring Team's report of 10 March. Proposals for improving the listing and delisting process, which have been under consideration for some time, will continue to be discussed in the committee
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Over the last sixty years, the Council has utilised this power to establish a very wide range of subsidiary bodies, including: committees, working groups, commissions, missions and international tribunals.
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In December the Chairman of the Sanctions Committee created by resolution 1267 (Al-Qaida/Taliban), submitted two letters to the Security Council (S/2005/760 and S/2005/761).
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The lack of a settled, generic policy on both the implementation of targeted sanctions and the working methods of the sanctions committees is not surprising given the Council's traditional situation-specific approach to issues. But this approach has not precluded Council members in the past from establishing general principles to guide their approach to issues.
