A/RES/72/284
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 July 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 118
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 26 June 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/72/L.62)]
72/284.
The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy Review
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, contained
in its resolution 60/288 of 8 September 2006, and recalling its resolution 68/276 of
13 June 2014, which called for, inter alia, an examination of the report of the
Secretary-General on the progress made in the implementation of the Strategy and of
the implementation of the Strategy by Member States and for consideration to be
given to updating the Strategy to respond to changes,
Recalling the pivotal role of the General Assembly in following up the
implementation and the updating of the Strategy,
Recalling also its resolution 71/291 of 15 June 2017, in which it decided to
establish the Office of Counter-Terrorism, and underscoring the competencies and
functions of the Office as set out in the report of the Secretary -General on the
capability of the United Nations system to assist Member State s in implementing the
Strategy 1 and endorsed in resolution 71/291, including providing leadership on the
General Assembly counter-terrorism mandates entrusted to the Secretary-General,
enhancing coordination and coherence across the Counter-Terrorism Implementation
Task Force (Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact entities) to ensure the
balanced implementation of the four pillars of the Strategy, strengthening the delivery
of United Nations counter-terrorism capacity-building assistance to Member States,
improving visibility, advocacy and resource mobilization for United Nations counter terrorism efforts, and ensuring that due priority is gi ven to counter-terrorism across
the United Nations system and that the important work on preventing violent
extremism as and when conducive to terrorism is firmly rooted in the Strategy,
Recalling further its resolution 66/10 of 18 November 2011, recognizing the
important work carried out by the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre,
established within the Office of Counter-Terrorism, and its role in building the
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