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UN: Watershed moment in UN Sec Council lawmaking if this 'foreign fighters resolution' passes on Wed. Huge consequences

23 September 2014

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See: Watershed moment in UN Sec Council lawmaking if this 'foreign fighters resolution' passes on Wed. Huge consequences (Mathias Vermeulen, Twitter, link)

And see in reference to the proposed EU entry-exit system: UN Security Council to set out plan to stop foreign fighters joining extremist groups in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere (Daily Telegraph, link): "The US-draft calls on states "to require that airlines under their jurisdiction provide advance passenger information to the appropriate national authorities in order to detect the departure from their territory, or attempted entry into or transit through their territory" of people under UN sanctions."

Background: Current UN Resolution 1373, 2001 (pdf)

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