UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The head of a U.N. panel monitoring sanctions against Al-Qaida and the Taliban is calling for new means to defeat terrorism because of changing threats.
Ambassador Heraldo Munoz of Chile, chairman of the Security Council's sanctions committee, also said Monday that while it was wrong to suggest that the sanctions approach to terrorist groups had failed, the response from U.N. member states could be more effective by being both vigilant and flexible.
"The nature of the threat is constantly evolving, just as Al-Qaida itself has evolved from an organization with a structure and hierarchy into a global network of groups unbound by organizational structure but held together by a set of overlapping ideological goals," he said.
Munoz called for closer cooperation between states on operational issues, saying it then could be much more difficult for terrorist groups to carry out their work.
The Santiago envoy also sought fresh names for the committee's list of individuals and entities belonging to, or associated with, Al-Qaida and the Taliban. He said only 429 names, or "only a small fraction of the actual number," now appear on the list.
