The 20th anniversary of SCR 1373 (2001) and the establishment of the Counter-Terrorism Committee

On 28 September 2001, in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 against the United States, the Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1373 (2001) under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, defining a broad counter-terrorism mandate for the international community.
This landmark resolution created a body of legally binding obligations on Member States, calling upon them to implement measures intended to enhance their legal, institutional, and operational capacities to counter terrorist activities at home, in their regions, and around the world, and to work together to prevent and suppress terrorist acts.
The resolution also established the Counter-Terrorism Committee, which consists of all 15 members of the Security Council, to monitor States’ implementation of the resolution. In the past twenty years, a total of 93 Member States have served on the Security Council and contributed their efforts and endorsements to the Counter-Terrorism Committee’s body of work.
Since 2001, the Council has taken the leading role in guiding the evolution of the approaches required to address the threat of terrorism. It has adopted over 20 additional resolutions relating to counter-terrorism, including resolution 1535 (2004), which created the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) to support the Committee to carry out its mandate. The Security Council has also adopted a number of presidential statements and policy documents, as well as a range of assessment tools to guide Member States and the work of the Committee and CTED as they support States in their implementation of Security Council resolutions on counter-terrorism.
Resolution 1373 (2001) remains the foundation upon which the Council’s active counter-terrorism framework is built and continues to provide the basis for further developments in countering terrorism.
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