Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Volume:
35
Issue:
8
Abstract:
On July 19, 2019, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted Resolution 2482 (2019), which addresses the relationship between organized crime and counter-terrorism. This is a topic that has been debated regularly in the UNSC since the first resolution, Resolution 1373 (2001), a month after 9/11, that recognized a “close connection between international terrorism and transnational organized crime, illicit drugs, money-laundering, illegal arms-trafficking, and illegal movement of nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly materials.” This resolution called for national, regional, and international cooperation to combat terrorism financing and money laundering.