UN Security Council resolution 1566

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The UN Security Council Resolution 1566 (UNSCR 1566) of October 8, 2004 forms the international law basis for various activities to combat terrorism .

In it, the UN Security Council condemns terrorism and calls on the international community to "cooperate fully in accordance with its obligations under international law".

Its significance lies in its definition of terrorism, which is binding under international law and which goes far beyond the specific cause of al-Qaeda terrorism:

The UN Security Council "recalls that crimes , including those committed against civilians with the intention of causing death or serious physical injury , or hostage-taking , that are committed with the aim of the whole population, a group of persons or To frighten individual persons, to intimidate a population or to compel a government or an international organization to do or not to act which constitute criminal offenses within the meaning and in accordance with the definitions of the international conventions and protocols relating to terrorism, are under no circumstances justified can by citing political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other considerations of a similar nature, and calls on all states to prevent such crimes and, if they cannot be prevented, to ensure that penalties are imposed for such crimes that correspond to the gravity of the act ".

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  1. cf. Roberts, Adam: The 'War on Terror' in Historical Perspective , in: Mahnken, Thomas G .; Maiolo, Joseph A .: Strategic Studies - A Reader , Oxon: Routledge 2007, p. 398

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