UN Security Council Sanctions Committees



Focal Point for De-listing established pursuant to Security Council
resolution 1730 (2006)

Focal Point for De-listing

As part of its commitment to ensure that fair and clear procedures exist for placing individuals and entities on sanctions lists and for removing them, as well as for granting humanitarian exemptions, the Security Council, on 19 December 2006, adopted resolution 1730 (2006) by which the Council requested the Secretary-General to establish within the Secretariat (Security Council Subsidiary Organs Branch), a focal point to receive de-listing requests and perform the tasks described in the annex to that resolution.

Petitioners seeking to submit a request for de-listing can now do so either through the focal point process outlined in resolution 1730 (2006) and its annex or through their State of residence or citizenship. By letter of 30 March 2007 the Secretary-General informed the President of the Security Council that the focal point for de-listing had been established and provided the contact details. The Focal Point can be contacted at this address:

Focal Point for De-listing
Security Council Subsidiary Organs Branch
Room S-3055-E
United Nations
New York, N.Y. 10017
United States of America
Tel. +1 917 367 9448
Fax. +1 212 963 1300/3778
Email: delisting@un.org

Pursuant to footnote 1 of the annex to resolution 1730 (2006) a State can decide, that as a rule, its citizens or residents should address their de-listing requests directly to the focal point. The State will do so by a declaration addressed to the Chairman of the Committee that will be published on the Committee's website.

The following States have submitted declarations in accordance with resolution 1730 (2006) and citizens or residents of these countries should therefore submit de-listing requests directly to the focal point for de-listing:

France

As of 9 November 2009, statistics relating to the focal point process are as follows:

Security Council Committee

Requests received1

Requests processed

De-listed

Remained on the list(s)

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban and Associated Individual and Entities

(17 requests)
13 individuals     
20 entities

14

3 individuals2
12 entities3

7 individuals
1 entity

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003)

(1 request)
1 individual
1 entity

1 

 

1 individual
1 entity

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia

(22 requests 4)
16 individuals
9 entities

20

5 individuals

11 individuals
9 entities

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo

(5 requests)
3 individuals
4 entities

4

1 individual

1 individual
4 entities

 

(45 requests)

33 individuals
34 entities

39

9 individuals 2
12 entities 3

20 individuals                      15 entities

1Some requests are second or third requests, or a repeated request, from the same individual.

2One additional individual was de-listed by the Committee, pursuant to its review of the name as called for paragraph 25 of resolution 1822 (2008), while the focal point process had not yet concluded.

3Two additional entities were de-listed by the Committee, pursuant to its review of the names as called for in paragraph 25 of resolution 1822 (2008), while the focal point process had not yet concluded.

4One additional request was returned pursuant to paragraph 3 of the annex to resolution 1730 (2006).


S/RES/1730 (2006) 19 December 2006 Establishes a focal point within the Secretariat (Security Council Subsidiary Organs Branch) to receive de-listing requests and directs the relevant sanctions committees to revise their guidelines accordingly (paras 1 & 2)
S/2007/178 30 March 2007 Letter dated 30 March 2007 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council (Contact details for the Focal Point for De-listing)