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The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted by consensus the Resolution on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism which emphasis the need to take concrete action to combat all forms of terrorism. The Security Council also adopted Resolution 1377(2001), which contains a declaration on the global effort to combat terrorism. The special features of these two Resolutions is the emphasis the UN places on the fact that no-cause or consideration can be invoked to justify terrorism, and the obligations cast on States to take measures to deny financial and other forms of support and safe havens to terrorists and those supporting terrorism. The Resolution on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, which will now go before the UNGA for adoption, reiterates that “criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstances unjustifiable, whatever the consideration of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other nature that may be invoked to justify them”. Meanwhile, the Security Council Resolution reaffirms its “unequivocal condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, in all their forms and manifestations, wherever and whomever committed.” This constitutes a prohibition on the use of violence to provoke a “state of terror” in members of the public, and a categorical rejection by the United Nations of the argument that the end justifies the means. The Security Council Resolution also calls for the speedy implementation of Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001), which is targeted at countering the financial networks of terrorist groups. It invites the Counter-Terrorism Committee established by the Security Council to explore ways in which states can be assisted in this regard, in particular, concerning the availability of existing technical, financial, regulatory, legislative or other assistance programmes. The LTTE has been designated a terrorist organization by the Governments of the United States and Canada, and proscribed by the Governments of India, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom, under Security Council Resolution 1373 which spells out comprehensively the measures that all states are mandatory required to take to combat terrorism, the assets and bank accounts of a number of terrorist organizations, including the LTTE, have been seized or frozen in many countries.
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