UN Counterterrorism Official Calls For Reintegration Of IS Family Members Into Society

Vladimir Voronkov, the head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, called on the international community on Saturday to solve the issue of reintegration of relatives of the members of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) into society.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 15th December, 2018) Vladimir Voronkov, the head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, called on the international community on Saturday to solve the issue of reintegration of relatives of the members of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) into society.

"We need to think about the reintegration of a number of people involved in these terrorism activities, but after the rehabilitation process, and these two processes are very difficult but very important in order to achieve the final goal to exclude terrorism from the international agenda," Voronkov stated at the Doha Forum 2018 in Qatar, adding that it was necessary to show that there was a way forward for those people.

He also raised the issue of children born in the IS caliphate, who have no registration or nationality, with the countries of the world unwilling to address the issue.

Voronkov revealed that his office was preparing a handbook on the best practices in the counterterrorism field.

In August, the United Nations issued a report which estimated the number of IS militants remaining in Iraq and Syria to range between 20,000 and 30,000 despite the elimination of the IS caliphate a year earlier.