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investigate, respond to and recover from damage from terrorist attacks on critical
infrastructure facilities, and emphasizes the need for States able to do so to assist in
the delivery of effective and targeted capacity development, training and other
necessary resources, and technical assistance, where it is needed, to enable all States
to develop appropriate capacity to implement contingency and response plans with
regard to attacks on critical infrastructure and soft targets or public places;
54. Recognizes that Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qaida
and its affiliates continue to pose a widespread challenge in the fight against
terrorism, encourages Member States to integrate the Islamic State in Iraq and the
Levant (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida sanctions regime, pursuant to Security Council
resolutions 1267 (1999) of 15 October 1999, 1989 (2011) of 17 June 2011 and
2253 (2015) of 17 December 2015, into their national and regional counter-terrorism
strategies, including by proposing for inclusion on the Islamic State in Iraq and the
Levant (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida sanctions list the names of individuals, groups,
undertakings and entities, reminds Member States of their obligation to ensure that
their nationals and persons in their territory do not make economic resources available
to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals,
groups, undertakings and entities, takes note of the significant contribution of the
Office of the Ombudsperson, since its establishment, in providing fairness and
transparency to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da ’esh) and Al-Qaida
sanctions regime, and stresses the need to continue efforts to ensure that procedures
are fair and clear;
55. Encourages Member States and international and regional organizations
to enhance knowledge of and support initiatives to address, in the design and
implementation of global, regional and national counter-terrorism strategies, the
linkages between terrorism and transnational organized crime;
56. Encourages all relevant international, regional and subregional
organizations and forums involved in the fight against terrorism to cooperate with t he
United Nations system and Member States in supporting the Strategy and to share
best practices, and calls for information-sharing, through appropriate channels and
arrangements, on individuals and entities implicated in any type of terrorist activities,
their tactics and modus operandi, supply of weapons and sources of material or any
other form of support, specific crimes related to perpetration, planning or preparation
of terrorist acts, narratives used by terrorists to mobilize resources and garner su pport
from sympathizers, including by exploiting information and communications
technologies, and on the ongoing international counter-terrorism cooperation,
especially among special services, security agencies and law enforcement
organizations and criminal justice authorities;
57. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Activities of the
United Nations system in implementing the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism
Strategy” and the annexes thereto 10 and the efforts deployed by the Counter-Terrorism
Implementation Task Force (Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact
entities), and underlines the importance of providing the resources necessary for the
implementation of these projects;
58. Also takes note of the measures that Member States and relevant
international, regional and subregional organizations have adopted within the
framework of the Strategy, as referred to in paragraph 51 of the report of the SecretaryGeneral and considered at the sixth biennial review of the Strategy, on 26 and 27 June
2018, all of which strengthen cooperation to fight terrorism, including through the
exchange of best practices;
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