INTERPOL-United Nations Security Council Special Notices

Suara Indonesia News - In the framework of INTERPOL/United Nations co-operation on the issuance of IP-UN Security Council Special Notices for individuals and entities associated with Al-Qaida and the Taliban, INTERPOL has made accessible through its public website the Consolidated List issued by the 1267 Committee of the United Nations Security Council. More information on the Consolidated List, together with the most recent updates to it, are available on the UN website. INTERPOL has issued IP-UN Security Council Special Notices for those individuals and entities associated with Al-Qaida and the Taliban for which the 1267 Committee has requested a Special Notice and for which sufficient information is available to establish one.
One of INTERPOL’s most important functions is to help police in member countries share critical crime-related information using the organization’s system of color-coded international Notices. The information concerns individuals wanted for serious crimes, missing persons, unidentified bodies, possible threats and criminals’ modus operandi. In addition, Notices are used by the International Criminal Court as well as the International Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda to seek persons wanted for serious violations of international human rights laws. Based on requests from National Central Bureaus (NCBs), the General Secretariat produces Notices in all of the organization’s official languages: English, French, Spanish and Arabic. The General Secretariat can also issue Green Notices on its own.
In a series of Resolutions, 1267 (1999), 1333 (2000), 1390 (2002), 1455 (2003), 1526 (2004), 1617 (2005) and 1735 (2006), the Security Council has established sanctions against individuals and entities associated with Al-Qaida, and the Taliban, wherever located. Sanctioned individuals and entities appear on a Consolidated List established and maintained by a Committee of the Security Council established pursuant to Resolution 1267 (the 1267 Committee). These Resolutions have all been adopted under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter and require all States to take the following measures with regard to individuals and entities who have been listed by the 1267 Committee and appear on the Consolidated List:
freeze without delay the funds and other financial assets or economic resources of designated individuals and entities (the “assets freeze”)
prevent the entry into or transit through their territories by designated individuals (the “travel ban”), and
prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale and transfer from their territories or by their nationals outside their territories, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, of arms and related materiel of all types, spare parts, and technical advice, assistance, or training related to military activities, to designated individuals and entities (the “arms embargo”).
The United Nations Security Council requested through the adoption of Resolution 1617 (2005) that the United Nations Secretary General take the necessary steps to increase co-operation between the United Nations and INTERPOL in order to provide the Sanctions Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1267 (1999) with better tools to fulfill its mandate more effectively.
The INTERPOL General Assembly welcomed UN Security Council Resolution 1617 through the adoption of Resolution AG-2005-RES-05 which approved that INTERPOL’s General Secretariat devise ways to increase co-operation with the United Nations in the fight against terrorist acts by Al-Qaida and the Taliban and associated individuals and entities, and that for that purpose the INTERPOL General Secretariat create a Special Notice.
Following this request and in close cooperation with the 1267 Committee, an INTERPOL-United Nations Security Council Special Notice was created in 2005 to support the United Nations Security Council in the fight against terrorism (see also exchange of letters – create hyperlink).
The INTERPOL-United Nations Security Council Special Notice is issued for individuals and entities associated with Al-Qaida and the Taliban as listed by the 1267 Committee on the Consolidated List and therefore subject to sanctions (freezing of assets, travel ban and arms embargo). These Special Notices are circulated to all INTERPOL member countries and have two principal functions:
to alert national law enforcement agencies that certain individuals are the target of United Nations sanctions and are, therefore, subject to an assets freeze, arms embargo, and travel ban and
to improve the accuracy of the Consolidated List.
If a member of the public has information about any entities or individuals who are subjects of the INTERPOL-United Nations Security Council Special Notice, they should not contact the General Secretariat directly, but contact the police where the individual or the entity has been located or identified.
This Notice shall not be used to be prejudicial to the fundamental rights of the individuals and the rights of the groups.
Any unauthorized alteration of any portion of INTERPOL-United Nations Security Council Special Notice is considered as a violation and subject to legal prosecution.