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2022 United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) Second Quarterly Briefing to Member States

During the Second UNOCT Quarterly Briefing to Member States of 2022, on 14 July, participants discussed:

  1. Counter-terrorism trends and developments, including the 1) Expansion of Da’esh to newer battlefields and their efforts to regroup in their traditional geographic centre in Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic, 2) Exploitation of online platforms for terrorist purposes, 3) The potential of poverty and social inequalities in many regions, as well as fallouts from emergency measures impacting human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic, to increase existing grievances, fueling radicalization to violence, and 4) Concerns over the use of proceeds from the exploitation, trade, and trafficking of natural resources for the purposes of terrorism financing. 
  2. Strategic counter-terrorism policy priorities, including the and building on the outcomes of the High-Level International Conference on Regional Cooperation among Central Asian States on 3-4 March 2022, and first Annual Forum of Beneficiaries of Technical Assistance held in Doha on 28-29 March 2022. 
  3. The progress made by UNOCT towards realizing the strategic objectives identified during the Ambassadorial-level Briefing in February 2022, including the 1) Implementation of UNOCT’s 83 global technical and capacity-building assistance programmes and projects, engaging beneficiaries from 172 countries and 117 national agencies, 3) Operationalization of UNOCT’s two newly opened field offices, in Madrid, Kingdom of Spain and Nairobi, Kenya, and continued delivery of effective counter-terrorism support to Member States through UNOCT’s existing Programme Offices in Rabat, Morocco, and Doha, State of Qatar, 4) Mainstreaming of human rights, gender and civil society engagement across all UNOCT programmatic efforts and 5) Continuing efforts to strengthen counter-terrorism coordination and coherence through the Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact

Remarks were delivered by: 

  • Mr. Raffi Gregorian, Deputy to the Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism and Director, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT)
  • H.E. Mr. Bakhtiyor Ibragimov, Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan to the United Nations
  • H.E. Mr. Agustín Santos Maraver, Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations
  • Mr. Jassim Al-Maawda, Deputy Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations
  • Mr. Weixiong Chen, Acting Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)
  • Ms. Wuhong Shi, United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team (1267 Committee Monitoring Team)
  • Ms. Elisa de Anda Madrazo, Vice-President of the (FATF)
  • Ms. ?sa Regnér, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director,
  • Ms. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin,
  • Ms. Jo Dedeyne-Amann, Officer-in-Charge, Terrorism Prevention Branch (TPB) Division for Treaty Affairs (DTA), (UNODC)
  • Mr. Jehangir Khan, Director, United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT)
  • Mr. Muhammad Rafiuddin Shah, Chief, Policy, Knowledge Management and Coordination Branch, UNOCT
  • Ms. Veronic Wright, Chief, Human Rights and Gender Section, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT)