S/RES/2380 (2017)
United Nations
Security Council
Distr.: General
5 October 2017
Resolution 2380 (2017)
Adopted by the Security Council at its 8061st meeting, on
5 October 2017
The Security Council,
Recalling resolution 2240 (2015), resolution 2312 (2016) and Presidential
Statement 2015/25,
Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence,
territorial integrity and national unity of Libya,
Welcoming the Secretary-General’s report S/2017/761,
Recalling that international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention
on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982, sets out the legal framework applicable
to activities in the ocean,
Reaffirming also the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime (UNTOC Convention) and its Protocol against the Smuggling of
Migrants by Land, Air and Sea, as the primary international legal instruments to
combat the smuggling of migrants and related conduct, and the Protocol to Prevent,
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children,
supplementing the UNTOC Convention, as the primary international legal
instruments to combat trafficking in persons,
Underlining that, although the crime of smuggling of migrants may share, in
some cases, some common features with the crime of trafficking in persons,
Member States need to recognize that they are distinct crimes, as defined by the
UNTOC Convention and its Protocols, requiring differing legal, operational, and
policy responses,
Deploring the continuing maritime tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea that
have resulted in thousands of casualties, and noting with concern that such
casualties were, in some cases, the result of exploitation and misinformation by
transnational criminal organizations which facilitated the illegal smuggling o f
migrants via dangerous methods for personal gain and with callous disregard for
human life,
Expressing grave concern at the ongoing proliferation of, and endangerment of
lives by, the smuggling of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, in particular off the
coast of Libya and reiterating that among these migrants may be persons who meet
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