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33.
Requests all States to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur in the
performance of the tasks and duties mandated, including by reacting promptly to urgent
appeals and providing the information requested, and to give serious consideration to
responding favourably to requests by the Special Rapporteur to visit their countries;
34.
Welcomes the creation of the Office of Counter-Terrorism,3 and encourages
the Office and all relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes, and
international, regional and subregional organizations involved in supporting counterterrorism efforts, in particular those that are participating in the Counter-Terrorism
Implementation Task Force and that provide technical assistance relating to the prevention
and suppression of terrorism to consenting States, to include, as appropriate and where
consistent with their mandates, respect for international law, in particular human rights law
and, as applicable, international humanitarian law and international refugee law, as an
important element of the technical assistance they offer to States in the area of counterterrorism;
35.
Recalls the need to continue to ensure that fair and clear procedures under the
United Nations terrorism-related sanctions regime are strengthened in order to enhance
efficiency and transparency, in particular with regard to placing individuals and entities on,
and removing them from, terrorism-related sanctions lists, while emphasizing the
importance of sanctions in countering terrorism under international law, and welcomes the
ongoing efforts of the Security Council in support of those objectives;
36.
Requests the High Commissioner and the Special Rapporteur to present their
reports, bearing in mind the content of the present resolution, to the Human Rights Council
under agenda item 3, in conformity with its annual programme of work.
38th meeting
23 June 2017
[Adopted without a vote.]
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See General Assembly resolution 71/291.
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