Counter-Terrorism Committee meeting focuses on how to criminalize terrorism
On Thursday, 6 June 2024, the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) convened an open meeting to discuss the codification of the terrorist offence in Member State’s domestic criminal law.
In his opening statement, H.E. Ambassador Amar Bendjama, Chair of the CTC, noted that “resolution 1373 (2001), adopted under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, imposed on all States an obligation to establish terrorist acts as serious criminal offences…and called upon all States to cooperate in preventing terrorism and in bringing terrorists to justice.” He went on to note that the Council has consistently called upon Member States to ensure that measures to counter terrorism comply with international human rights, refugee and humanitarian law.
