MOSCOW. Feb 13 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry is expecting the world to fulfill the resolution targeting terrorists in Iraq and Syria which the UN Security Council passed on Thursday on Russia's initiative, the ministry said in a commentary.
"Multinational cooperation of the kind should be based on international legal norms, and politicization, double standards and terrorists' division into "good" and "bad" should be avoided," the commentary underlined.
The UN Security Council approved measures "targeting sources of funding for terrorist groups with revenue of illegal trade in crude and petroleum products on the territories of Syria and Iraq," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Russia proposed the draft document co-authored by over 50 states, practically every member of the UN Security Council, including the five permanent members of the UNSC. The resolution carried on the policy the UN Security Council was holding in 2014 with Russia's support against the terrorist groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al-Nusrah Front (ANF) operating in Syria and Iraq, the commentary noted.
The resolution banned the procurement of crude and petroleum products from the ISIL and the ANF and said that such purchases would be regarded as financing terrorism, leading to sanctions against individuals and legal entities involved in such criminal activity. The sanctions will entail travel bans and freeze on financial assets. Every state pledged to prosecute those supporting terrorists.
The resolution covered other sources of funding as well, for instance, contraband such as precious metals and cultural artifacts and other valuables from Iraq and Syria.