The resolution, sponsored by Egypt, strongly condemns the continuing flow of weapons, military equipment, drones and improvised explosive devices to ISIS, al-Qaeda and their affiliates as well as illegal armed groups and criminals.
"This is one of the first resolutions aiming to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons," Egypt's UN Ambassador Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta, the current Security Council president, said after the vote. "Arming of terrorists and terrorist groups ... is a crime that is no less heinous than the terrorist act itself.
Additionally, the UN member states were urged to strengthen their judicial, law enforcement and border-control capacities in order to ensure the ability to take appropriate legal actions against those knowingly engaged in providing arms and ammunition to terrorists.
ISIS, notorious for its heinous atrocities and sacrilegious acts, has been committing gross human rights violations and war crimes in the areas it has overrun, particularly in Syria and Iraq.
The Takfiri group has also perpetrated a host of crimes and terrorist, including car-ramming, bombing and stabbing attacks, in other parts of the world.
