Iraq

Ms. Coninsx briefing the Security Council.

Representatives of CTED and UNOCT in discussions with Iraqi authorities.

In a follow-up to their recent joint high-level consultations in Iraq, the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) conducted a joint mission to Baghdad in early May 2018, with the support of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).

Baghdad and New York, 8 March 2018 – Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), and Ms. Michèle Coninsx, Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), yesterday concluded a two-day visit to Iraq at the invitation of the Government and with the support of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).

First informal CTC meeting on Iraq's counter-terrorism technical assistance needs.

A regional workshop for high-level Iraqi officials on “Cross-border cooperation to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism,” in which the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) participated, took place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from 27 to 29 May 2015.

Mr. Jean-Paul Laborde, Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), on 9 February met with H.E. Mr. Mohammed Shyaa Sabbar Al-Sudani, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of Iraq, at the United Nations in New York.