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Saturday 21 Nov 2015 - 14:00 Makkah mean time-9-2-1437
 New York (IINA) - With a rare rapidity of purpose, the United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a sweeping anti-ISIS resolution imploring the world to unite to defeat the terror outfit. It called on member states to “redouble and coordinate their efforts” to prevent further terrorist horrors by the group and “eradicate” it’s safe havens straddling parts of Iraq and Syria.
The vote in the Security Council was dramatic barely 24 hours after the text was presented in New York by the French ambassador to the UN, François Delattre. Stunned by the attacks of one week ago in Paris, the French government had correctly calculated that sympathy and a new sense of ISIS in the chamber would trump months of dithering and division on the combined issues of ISIS and the Syrian conflict, the Independent daily reported. The pressure was greatest on Russia and China, both veto-wielding permanent members traditionally averse to any resolutions that could be perceived as interference in another country’s affairs. But Russia recently suffered the downing of the Metrojet airliner over Sinai bearing passengers from Egypt to St Petersburg and this week ISIS claimed it had executed a Chinese national.
The resolution does not invoke Chapter VII of the UN charter specifically to authorize the use of outside military force within the borders of a sovereign state. It was nonetheless crafted in a way clearly meant to give countries additional diplomatic and political cover and impetus to target ISIS and eliminate it. The text calls on nations “with the capacity to do so” to “take all necessary measures” to “redouble and coordinate their efforts to prevent and suppress terrorist acts” committed by ISIS. It also labels the ISIS jihadists a “global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security”. The action in New York came as the world watched another terror ISIS unfold in Mali where Islamic militants stormed a hotel in the capital, Bamako, briefly taking 170 people hostage, before the hotel was stormed by security forces. Among hostages were citizens of China, France and the United States.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the unanimous U.N vote showed the world is united against the "evil death cult". Cameron called the vote on the French-drafted text an "important moment". "The world has united against ISIL (ISIS). The international community has come together and has resolved to defeat this evil, which threatens people of every country and every religion," he said in a statement. "Britain will continue to support our allies who are fighting ISIL in Syria," Cameron said. "I will continue to make the case for us to do more and to build support in parliament for the action that I believe is necessary for Britain to take to protect our own security, as part of a determined international strategy. "We cannot expect others to shoulder the burdens and the risks of protecting this country."
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