CRI听力:UN Approves Resolution Targeting ISIS Financing Sources

The new resolution bans all trade in antiquities from Syria.

A similar measure was adopted for Iraq 10-years ago.

The UN resolution also threatens sanctions on anyone buying oil from the Islamic State or the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.

Both groups have control of numerous oil fields in northern Iraq and eastern Syria, and have been selling oil on the black market to help fund their campaigns.

The resolution, adopted by all 15 members on the Security Council, calls on countries to stop making ransom payments to kidnappers.

The United Nations estimates the Islamic State is raising around 100-thosuand dollars a day through ransom payments.

The Russian-drafted resolution is legally binding.

It gives the Security Council the authority to enforce its mandate through economic sanctions.

However, it doesn't allow for the use of military force.

China's UN representative is Liu Jieyi.

"China welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2199 by the Security Council. The resolution is of great importance for the coordination of the international anti-terrorist campaign and certain countries' efforts to fight against terrorism."

Russia's UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, says the resolution should be particularly effective in blocking the Islamic State's cash flow from the oil industry.

"We believe this is the type of case which clearly shows the need for the collective efforts to resolve the issues we are facing. Having adopted the resolution 2199, we took yet another very important step in suppressing the funding of terrorists – first and foremost from the illegal trafficking of oil."

The United Nations estimates the Islamic State has been generating between 800-thousand to 1.6 million US dollars a day through the sale of oil on the black market.

However, observers have been suggesting oil is no longer the main source of revenue for the group, given the depressed prices on the global market, as well as air strikes which have wiped out a number of the oil installations the Islamic State controls.

Syria's UN ambassador, Bashar al-Ja'afari, says his side is very happy to see the resolution be adopted.

"So we are very pleased to see the Council has moved finally in the right direction towards establishing a wider framework to combat terrorism and to guarantee full commitment from all member states to achieve this very important goal."

The lingering civil war in Syria became the breeding-ground for the Islamic State insurgency, as many of the foreign fighters who flocked to fight against the Syrian government later got together to form a united front.

This culminated with a massive offensive last summer which say the group take control of large swaths of eastern Syria and northern Iraq.

Its fighters nearly made it to Baghdad before being stopped.

For CRI, I'm Su Yi in New York.