UN resolution takes aim at Daesh revenues
The United Nations Security Council has adopted a resolution aimed at clogging up the Takfiri Takfiri group’s revenue stream.
The resolution earned the blessing of the 15-member council’s finance ministers, who were meeting for the first time in the body’s history on Thursday.
It considered Daesh to be posing as much threat as al-Qaeda, threatened sanctions on parties buying oil from the terrorist group, and advised that countries resist its demands for ransom payments.
The terror group has seized parts of Iraq and Syria, where it carries out the bulk of its operations. It has been engaged in bloodthirsty acts of terrorism against people of all communities in the areas under its control.
At the same time, the Takfiri group has been orchestrating and committing atrocities elsewhere across the world besides attempting to expand its presence in Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.
The Security Council, which had last month called on all countries to take “all necessary measures” to fight Daesh terrorists, also voiced concern that some countries were failing to implement long-standing sanctions against Daesh.
It asked states to report on "interdictions in their territory of any oil, oil products, modular refineries, and related material being transferred to or from" Daesh or al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorists.
According to a report released earlier this month by the IHS Conflict Monitor, Daesh pulls in around 80 million dollars a month mainly from levies and confiscations, oil and gas sales, drug-smuggling, kidnapping for ransom, and running small enterprises.
It has also been widely reported that the Takfiri militants enjoy critical support from Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
Ankara has faced broad criticism for offering safe passage to Daesh terrorists into and out of Syria besides allowing the group to conduct its oil sales via its territory, while Riyadh is said to have been rewarding the militant group with considerable financial and ideological patronage.
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