UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a counter-terrorism resolution Tuesday, calling for wide-ranging actions to stop supplies of small weapons, drones and material for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to terrorists.
Sponsored by Egypt, this month's president of the 15-member panel, the measure was endorsed by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, the Counter-Terrorism Committee and INTERPOL.
"We have been reminded time and again that no country can claim itself immune from the threat," INTERPOl representative Emmanuel Roux told the council members. "Yet this also means that we can all be part of the effort to stop their movement and break the supply."
"It is vital to mobilize international cooperation not only across regions, but also across action domains, ranging from international and domestic legislation to police work in the field," Roux said, warning of the convergence of organized crime and terrorism.
"We see firearms used in conflict zones reappear on the streets of major cities," Roux added, saying that "legal commercial products were turned into components for IEDs, and guns manufactured decades ago were found reactivated for sale in the marketplaces of the Dark Web."
He also warned that terrorists may get access to weapons by exploiting "the tactics and knowledge learned from the battlefield, the contacts and supply chains of organized crime groups they often used to belong to, and technology allowing the creation of modular firearms and 3D printing."
The council plans to tackle the challenge by asking nations to consider joining "instruments" to eliminate the terrorists' weapon supplies, strengthening embargoes by monitoring measures and taking legal actions to address illicit trafficking.
The resolution also calls for insuring the security of small and light arms by means of marking and tracking, strengthening border-control capacities, developing investigative capabilities, and enhancing international cooperation to prevent such terrorist groups as the Islamic State and Al Qaeda from acquiring weapons.
In addition, it called for increasing awareness of the material that goes into IEDs, as well as deeper collaboration in counter-terrorism activities, information technology and communications, among UN member states and other relevant international agencies.
