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Ambassadors representing two countries under attack from ISIL, Bashar Ja’afari (right) of Syria, and Mohamed Ali Alhakim of Iraq, speak to journalists following the adoption of a Security Council resolution targeting sources of financing for the group.
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Security Council approves resolution targeting sources of financing for ISIL

12 February 2015
Urging global cooperation “to impair, isolate and incapacitate” terrorist threats, the United Nations Security Council today approved measures targeting sources of funding for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al-Nusrah Front (ANF), condemning those buying oil from the groups, banning all trade in looted antiquities from Iraq and Syria, and calling on States to end ransom payments.
Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson addresses the open briefing by the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC).
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‘Vigilant, determined, united’: UN urges cohesive front against terrorism

10 February 2015
The international community must remain united in countering the threat of global terrorism despite the attempts by extremist groups to “spread fear by competing in brutality,” United Nations Deputy-Secretary-General Jan Eliasson declared today.