UNSC Asks for More Sanctions Requests, Aims to Study Sanctions Exemptions
The United Nations Security Council urged member states to more “actively” work with its sanctions committee to counter individuals and groups related to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) and al-Qaida, and to submit more listing and…
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designation requests, a Dec. 29 UNSC news release said. The council said more designation requests will help keep the U.N. sanctions list “reliable and up to date.” It advocated for an “analytical support and sanctions monitoring team” to study sanctions exemption procedures set out in a 2017 resolution, and to report to the committee within three months its analysis, including whether the exemptions should be updated.