United Nations Security Council resolution 1267

Why in news?

• The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group's Noor Wali Mehsud has been designated as a global terrorist by the United Nations Security Council's 1267 ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee.

About the resolution:

• United Nations Security Council resolution 1267 was adopted unanimously on 15 October 1999.
• It established a sanctions regime to cover individuals and entities associated with Al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden and/or the Taliban wherever located.
• The regime is composed of a UN Security Council Committee, a "consolidated list" of people and entities it has determined as being associated with Al-Qaeda or the Taliban.
• It also has laws which must be passed within each member nation in order to implement the sanctions.
• The Committee receives reports from each nation as to how the work is proceeding, and is able to vary the conditions imposed on any individual as it sees fit.
• The TTP was blacklisted by the UN on July 29, 2011 for its association with al-Qaida.

PRELIMS QUESTION

United Nations Security Council resolution 1267 is related to:

(a)Sanctions against  Democratic People's Republic of Korea

(b)Preventing and combating the financing of terrorism by nation states

(c)Sanctions on Government and paramilitaries of South Sudan

(d)Sanctions on individuals/entities associated with Al-Qaida, and/or the Taliban

Answer to prelims question