This is typical of the U.N. , It has turned into such a bureaucracy That they never get anything done , or Right ! A list of over 500 terrorists and they have a hard time agreeing on who is who and even if they Know their names ! Like Al Gore and his fruitiness , they U.N. just needs to go Bye Bye !
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Dozens of terrorism suspects remain on a U.N. sanctions list despite having likely died and information on others is so scant as to render their inclusion useless, a U.N. ambassador said on Tuesday.
These flaws make it tough to impose bans on people and companies on the list linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban, even as new threats emerge in countries like Somalia, said Thomas Mayr-Harting, who chairs the U.N. Security Council's Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee.
Of 513 entries on the list, 38 people are reported or believed to be dead, Mayr-Harting, who is also Austria's ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters.
"It is not the purpose of the list to contain dead people," he said.
Taking the dead people's names off the list requires consensus among all members, which slows the process, Mayr-Harting said. Relatives of the dead cannot access assets that were frozen until the names are struck off, he added.
A third of the entries are missing basic information, such as full names, dates of birth and other particulars. Without these details, police, border guards and financial institutions cannot freeze funds or ban travel, he added.
"Either you improve credibility by improving the list or by taking the names off," he said.
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