Foreign Policy Magazine’s blog ‘The Cable’ yesterday revealed the discussions at the United Nations surrounding Britain’s latest strategy aimed at containing ISIS or the ‘Islamic State’ organisation that has wreaked havoc across the Middle East.
The Cable reports:
Britain hopes a diplomatic initiative it introduced in the U.N. Security Council on Friday will contain Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria by curtailing their fundraising. The plan is to quash their illicit oil and gold exports, prevent ransom kidnappings, and hobble recruitment to stymie the establishment of an Islamic caliphate straddling the two Middle Eastern countries.
The U.N. diplomacy unfolded as the United States intervened militarily and humanitarianly in Iraq, launching airstrikes against the Islamic State and airdropping food and water to trapped religious minorities.
The resolution, which was drafted with input from Washington and Paris, demands that the Islamic State, al-Nusra Front, and other al Qaeda affiliates “cease all atrocities and terrorist activities,” and urges states to “cooperate in efforts to find and bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of terrorist acts.
It does not, however, propose using force.
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