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Two of the blacklisted men were Saudis wanted by
Riyadh for links to militants, while two others were Kuwaitis, including
a prominent cleric accused of links to Nusra Front..
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait agreed to comply with a
United Nations resolution aimed at stopping financing for Islamist
militant groups in Syria and Iraq after four of their nationals were
named among a group blacklisted by the international body.
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a
resolution on Friday intended to weaken the Islamic State - an Al Qaeda
splinter group that has seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria
and declared a caliphate - and Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing, Nusra Front.
Riyadh this year declared the Islamic State
group and the Nusra Front terrorist organisations, imposing prison terms
for giving them moral or material support, and has mobilised its
clerics to preach against private donations to militants.
The Islamic State has long been blacklisted by
the Security Council, while Nusra Front was added earlier this year.
Both groups are designated under the UN Al Qaeda sanctions regime.
Gulf media said that two of the blacklisted men
were Saudis wanted by Riyadh for links to militants, while two others
were Kuwaitis, including Sheikh Hajjaj bin Fahd Al Ajmi, a prominent
cleric accused of links to Syria’s Al Qaeda branch, the Nusra Front.
“Kuwait will abide by the UN Resolution 2170 and
implement all its terms,” Kuwait’s UN ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al
Otaibi said in a statement carried by state news agency KUNA on
Saturday.
Under Friday’s resolution, the six people will
be subject to an international travel ban, asset freeze and arms
embargo. It asks UN experts - charged with monitoring violations of the
council’s Al Qaeda sanctions regime - to report in 90 days on the threat
posed by Islamic State and Nusra Front, and on details of their
recruitment and funding.
The London-based Asharq Al Awsat said the two
Saudis, Abdul Mohsen Abdallah Ibrahim Al Charekh and Abdelrahman
Mouhamad Zafir al Jahani, were on two lists of wanted militants issued
in 2009 and in 2011.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which
monitors casualties in fighting in Syria, has said that Charekh was
killed near the Syrian coastal city of Latakia in March. Jahani was
believed to be at large somewhere outside Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United Nations,
Abdullah Al Mualami, also said Riyadh was “committed to implementation”
of the resolution.
Both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have recently
tightened laws aimed at preventing citizens from involvement in foreign
conflicts and instructed mosque preachers to abide by government
policies during their sermons.
The Kuwaiti government last month ordered
non-governmental public welfare associations to refrain from involvement
in politics and shut down branches of some associations.
In Saudi Arabia, Muslim Sharia courts have
issued a series of verdicts jailing people for going to fight abroad or
collecting funds for militants.
(REUTERS)
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