Committee – ECOSOC

Name – Harshit Harsh

Portfolio – United States of America
School – Delhi Public School, Siliguri
Agenda – CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESPONSE TO PREVENT
AND COUNTER TERRORISM IN ALL ITS FORM AND
MANIFESTATIONS, INCLUDING THE FINANCING OF TERRORISM, AND TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE IN SUPPORT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RELEVANT
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND PROTOCOLS.
“With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way
to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.” - President Harry Truman, White
House April 25, 1945.
One of the United Nations’ founding purposes was the promise of collective measures to
prevent and counter threats to international peace and security. To enhance coordination
and coherence, the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact, which is a
coordination framework bringing together 38 UN entities, plus INTERPOL and the World
Customs Organization, was launched by the UN Secretary-General in December 2018. The
United Nations Security Council has recognized, and expressed concern at, the connection
between transnational organized crime and terrorism in several of its resolutions. The Council
has also referred to the links between terrorist activities and specific forms of crime, including
trafficking in persons, drug trafficking, trafficking in firearms, and illicit trade in market oil,
other natural resources, and extortion. The General Assembly, noting also the growing links
between transnational organized crime and terrorist crimes, adopted the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its supplementary Protocols: the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children, the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Air and Sea and the
Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and
Components and Ammunition, as an effective tool for international cooperation to address
inter alia these links.
The United States played a major role in the repatriation, rehabilitation, reintegration, and
prosecution of ISIS foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and family members. Tens of thousands of
FTF family members, primarily women and children, remain in displaced persons’ camps in Syria.
To ensure that ISIS fighters and family members captured by the SDF never return to the battlefield,
the United States continued to lead by example in bringing back its citizens and prosecuting them
when appropriate. Also, U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of
each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups
meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on
Terrorism. The US also established Antiterrorism Assistance Program (ATA), Countering the
Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund (CTPF), Global
Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), Technical Support Working Group (TSWG), Terrorist
Screening and Interdiction Programs (TSI), Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership
(TSCTP) and Partnership for Regional East Africa Counterterrorism (PREACT). However, the
policy of the United States is not to use lethal force when it is feasible to capture a terrorist
suspect, because capturing a terrorist offers the best opportunity to gather meaningful
intelligence and to mitigate and disrupt terrorist plots. Capture operations are conducted only
against suspects who may lawfully be captured or otherwise taken into custody by the
United States and only when the operation can be conducted in accordance with all applicable
law and consistent with our obligations to other sovereign states.
Yet the United States of America thinks that these policies are not enough to control terrorism on
noticing the extensive growth it in the past few years especially in the Asian and the Middle East
Ucountries; therefore, we propose the following actions:-
1. Encourages all the member states to put special emphasis on The UN Global Counter-
Terrorism Strategy (A/RES/60/288) in light to the fact that in 2006, all UN Member
States agreed the first time to a common strategic and operational approach to fighting
terrorism.
2. Requests the members to put the current central banking system into moderation under a
special unit to control money laundering and recover the stolen money to their respective
holders.
3. Supports the initiative to strengthen border security measures by the members but would
like to suggest to tighten its immigration system by forming Central Immigration
Department or to strengthen their existing departments respectively.
4. Emphasizes the members to rebuild its judiciary system to provide justice to victims more
efficiently and rapidly and also to build special courts and jails for cases including
National Security and Terrorism.
5. Decides to take initiative in stopping the fraudulent funding of Terrorist Organization by
enforcing the state department to provide intelligence and reports to UNOCT to directly
capture the accused ones and also to find out their links with the Terrorist Organization.
6. Further proclaims to heavily secure the Nuclear Weapons in the country and would like
to now reduce to 2/3rd of its existing stockpile while requesting other NWS to also take
into account the security of their Nuclear Weapons and their required number.
7. Draws attention of the members on the increasing amount of drug trafficking and illegal
arms trade happening in different countries and would like to suggest its highly capable
members to deploy special task for the same and would like to assist the moderately
capable members in the same.
8. Urges the members to maintain justice and the human rights of those accused who are yet
to be proven guilty and would suggest the members who follows “ Guilty until proven
Innocent” to change their current system for the betterment of the society and the Nation.
9. Affirms the built of special rehabilitation camps for the victims of terrorism in order to
improve their living condition and would recommend the members to also take initiative
for the same.