ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee

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The ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee^[a] is a committee of the United Nations Security Council tasked with implementing international sanctions against the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. It was established as the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 15 October 1999, pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1267, which designated al-Qaeda and the Taliban as terrorist organizations. Following the creation of a separate Taliban Sanctions Committee on 17 June 2011, it was renamed the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee. The scope of the sanctions regime was expanded to include the Islamic State on 17 December 2015 pursuant to Resolution 2253.

The committee is one of three Security Council committees dealing with counter-terrorism. The other two committees are the Counter-Terrorism Committee established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001), and the Security Council Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1540 (2004).

Resolution 1267 (1999) and subsequent resolutions have all been adopted under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter and require all UN member states to inter alia "freeze the assets of, prevent the entry into or transit through their territories by, and prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale and transfer of arms and military equipment to any individual or entity associated with Al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden and/or the Taliban as designated by the Committee".

On 17 June 2011, Resolution 1989 was adopted, so that the sanctions measures now apply to designated individuals and entities associated solely with al-Qaeda. On this same date, Resolution 1988 was adopted, creating a new committee dealing exclusively with sanctions relating to the Taliban.

The Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee, like other Security Council committees, is composed of representatives of the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council. These are the five permanent members, China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, and ten other rotating members. Vanessa Frazier, the Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations, was appointed Chair of the committee. The two Vice-Chairs are from the United Arab Emirates and the Russian Federation. Chair positions do not carry extraordinary decision-making power, as the Committee takes all its decisions by consensus.^[1]

Upon the adoption of Resolution 1267 (1999), the Committee lacked a chairperson, and its first and only meeting held in 1999 was chaired by the then President of the United Nations Security Council, Jeremy Greenstock of the United Kingdom. The first Chairman of the committee was ambassador Arnoldo Listre of Argentina, who held the post until the end of 2000. The post was subsequently held by the Ambassadors of Colombia (2001–2002), Chile (2003–2004), Argentina (2005–2006), Belgium (2007–2008), Austria (2009–2010), and Germany (2011-2012).

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