The Security Council approach to specific crimes The GI-TOC annually reviews Security Council resolutions for references to forms of organized crime and presents its findings in the form of an interactive research tool (see below).5 This shows how over the period of the study, increasing attention is being given to the impacts illicit economies have on peace and security, particularly within count. [...] Among the Permanent Five members of the Council (P-5), Russia, China and the US have resisted the thematic approach on this in the past. [...] This marks a departure for the Council, in that it is the first time the Council has made criminal groups the main focus of sanctions, recognizing their role in undermining peace and security.12 Its creation was a rare showing of unanimity,13 and in 2023, the committee was assigned a panel of experts and is expected to begin its work. [...] We know that transnational markets cut across regions of conflict and instability, the benefactors and facilitators are both internal and external actors, and the longer conflict persists we see the size and number of markets expand, as well as the number of groups involved – many smaller and more predatory.24 These markets and the actors are baked into the current socio-economic conditions of the. [...] In the most recent meeting at the Council, China and Russia very clearly supported the role of Wagner, without naming it, whereas the US, UK and France all voiced concern over the presence of the Russian group.
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