S/PV.10081 Security Council

The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2025/837, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by the United States of America. The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now.

The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2810 (2025). I now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements after the voting.

The United States appreciates the unity demonstrated by the Council in renewing the Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) mandate.  Sadly, the evolving global threat and costly toll of terrorism remains clear.  In this month alone, three American lives were lost to terrorism in Syria, and 15 people were senselessly killed in an antisemitic terror attack at Bondi Beach in Australia. We reaffirm the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate’s mandate today for another three years.  Although this mandate’s renewal cycle differs from the last few mandate renewals, it reflects and aligns with the position of the United States that all United Nations special political missions must have more regular oversight to ensure their work remains focused and effective. We recognize the useful work that CTED has accomplished over the past 20 years to conduct 216 assessment visits to more than 120 Member States and produce more than 40 analytical products on emerging terrorist trends. We also appreciate CTED’s close collaboration with the Office of Counter-Terrorism and other relevant international organizations and stakeholders.  This collaboration facilitates training and enables all Member States to take the steps necessary to protect their citizens, their borders and critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks. The responsibility of combatting terrorist threats must be shared among those who have the most at stake. We welcome the steps other Member States are taking to share this burden. Looking forward, it is critical that CTED remain focused on core counter- terrorism measures related to denying financing and protecting borders.  CTED must also prioritize and focus its visits and assessments on countries with the greatest risk and threats of terrorism, particularly the evolving threat of Islamist terrorism in Africa. The United States will continue to use all available tools at our disposal to counter the global scourge of terrorism.  We welcome the constructive engagement by our fellow Council members to work together in this regard.

France welcomes the renewal of the mandate of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED). CTED is a key player in the multilateral counter-terrorism architecture. It plays an indispensable role in assessing the implementation of Council resolutions and identifying targeted areas for improvement tailored to local situations, through field visits and direct exchanges with the competent authorities of States. We would like to thank CTED and all of its teams for their work and commitment in implementing their mandate. That commitment must continue, as terrorist groups, starting with Al-Qaeda and Da’esh, continue to regroup and remain capable of projecting their threat across all continents. France voted in favor of resolution 2810 (2025) because it fully supports the mandate of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. It is regrettable, however, that this mandate is being renewed for only three years, rather than four, as desired by all members of the Council, save one. We hope that the next renewal, in 2029, will allow us to return to a four-year renewal.