Security Council - Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) -  refugee /securitycouncil/ctc/tags/%C2%A0refugee en Open briefing of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee on #DenyingSafeHaven /securitycouncil/ctc/news/open-briefing-un-counter-terrorism-committee-denyingsafehaven-0 <div class="field field-name-field-featured-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div id="file-22502" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg"> <h2 class="element-invisible"><a href="/securitycouncil/ctc/file/22502">img_6814.jpg</a></h2> <div class="content"> <img class="panopoly-image-original img-responsive" src="/securitycouncil/ctc/sites/www.un.org.securitycouncil.ctc/files/styles/panopoly_image_original/public/news_articles/img_6814.jpg?itok=KnmED1YG" alt="" /> </div> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Under Security Council resolution 1373 (2001), Member States are required to undertake measures to deny safe haven to those who finance, plan, support, or commit terrorist attacks. This obligation requires Member States to take a number of steps, including legislative measures on criminalisation and jurisdiction. In addition, the Security Council has called on Member States to take appropriate measures, in conformity with international law, before granting refugee status, to ensure that an asylum-seeker has not planned, facilitated, or participated in the commission of terrorist acts. According to the UN Refugee Convention, protection may not be afforded to any person if there are serious reasons for considering that he or she has committed such acts.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">In practice, however, Member States face a number of challenges in meeting these obligations, including limited resources, porous borders, insufficient information sharing, and lack of a regional framework for cooperation in criminal matters. In situations where asylum-seekers constitute part of a large influx of migrants, Member States often encounter difficulties in identifying such persons in a timely manner. Screening is often conducted in an ad hoc manner with minimal, if any, reference to national and international watch lists.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">With a view to discussing these challenges, identifying good practices and areas in which further efforts are required, the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee on 5 April 2017 organized an open briefing. Divided into two sessions, the first panel –&nbsp;<i>Denying safe haven to those who finance, plan, support, or commit terrorist acts, or provide safe havens</i>&nbsp;– featured speakers from INTERPOL, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED); also Ms. Lori Damrosch, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Columbia University, participated. The second session –&nbsp;<i>Preventing terrorists from abusing the asylum system, in conformity with international law</i>&nbsp;– included presentations by the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and by the Assistant Director with the Office of Legal Affairs of INTERPOL.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">In his opening remarks, Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee H.E. Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations, stressed that the two themes raised in the meeting are related in that they are both important to prevent the movement of terrorists, including foreign terrorist fighters.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Mr. Weixiong Chen, CTED Deputy Executive Director, in his closing remarks highlighted the mandate and unique role of the CTC and CTED in facilitating capacity-building and promoting good practices to address those challenges.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto"><img </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The prepared remarks by the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are available&nbsp;<a href="/sc/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/UNHCR-Speech_Asylum-Briefing-5-April-2017.pdf" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The intervention from UNODC is accessible&nbsp;<a href="/sc/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CTC-Safe-Haven-TPs-Chief-UNODC-TPB-050417-final.pdf" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The remarks by Ali Rached of INTERPOL is available&nbsp;<a href="/sc/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CTED-Open-Briefing-5-4-17-final.pdf" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">The remarks by Yaron Gottlieb of INTERPOL is available&nbsp;<a href="/sc/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170405_INTERPOL-Statement-Panel-1-Mr.-Gottlieb.pdf" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">here</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Remarks by Edward J. Flynn is available&nbsp;<a href="/sc/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Flynn-remarks-5-april-2017.pdf" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">A summary of the meeting is available&nbsp;<a href="/sc/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/NOTE.039Add.3-Summary-Open-briefing-on-denying-safe-havens-24-Apr-17.pdf" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Roboto">A webcast recording of the entire open briefing can be found&nbsp;<a href="http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/watch/cted-open-briefing-denying-safe-haven-to-those-who-finance-plan-support-or-commit-terrorist-acts-or-provide-safe-havens-and-preventing-terrorists-from-abusing-the-asylum-system-in-conformity-with-international-law/5386598274001" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-front-page-article field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Front Page Article:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div> Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:13:00 +0000 BMUSONI 20609 at /securitycouncil/ctc