US embassy cable - 04USUNNEWYORK494

UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 000494 
 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: UNSC, PTER, PREL, SP 
SUBJECT: UNSC: SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS MADRID BOMB ATTACKS 
 
THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON MARCH 11, 2004 UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED 
SCR 1530 TO CONDEMN THE MARCH 11 BOMB ATTACKS IN MADRID, 
SPAIN.  TEXT OF SCR 1530 FOLLOWS: 
 
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REAFFIRMING THE PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CHARTER OF THE 
UNITED NATIONS AND ITS RELEVANT RESOLUTIONS, IN PARTICULAR 
ITS RESOLUTION 1373 (2001) OF 28 SEPTEMBER 2001, 
REAFFIRMING THE NEED TO COMBAT BY ALL MEANS, IN ACORDANCE 
WITH THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS, THREATS TO 
INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY CAUSED BY TERRORIST ACTS, 
 
1.  CONDEMNS IN THE STRONGEST TERMS THE BOMB ATTACKS IN 
MADRID, SPAIN, PERPETRATED BY THE TERRORIST GROUP ETA ON 11 
MARCH 2004, IN WHICH MANY LIVES WERE CLAIMED AND PEOPLE 
INJURED, ANDD REGARDS SUCH ACT, LIKE ANY ACT OF TERRORISM, AS 
A THREAT TO PEACE AND SECURITY; 
 
2.  EXPRESSES ITS DEEPEST SYMPATHY AND CONDOLENCES TO THE 
PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN AND TO THE VICTIMS OF THE 
TERRORIST ATTACKS AND THEIR FAMILIES; 
 
3.  URGES ALL STATES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR OBLIGATIONS 
UNDER RESOLUTION 1373 (2001), TO COOPERATE ACTIVELY IN 
EFFORTS TO FIND AND BRING TO JUSTICE THE PERPETRATORS, 
ORGANIZERS AND SPONSORS OF THIS TERRORIST ATTAACK; 
 
4.  EXPRESSES ITS REINFORCED DETERMINATION TO COMBAT ALL 
FORMS OF TERRORISM, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS RESPONSIBILITIES 
UNDER THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS. 
 
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