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Those external trading routes and the oil fields and like, but we re also going to cut off financing and you ve got a united nations resolution that brought forward by the united states and russia, endorsed by every other country, that s a very, very powerful message to anyone thinking of getting involved in the business or any financial institution thinking of supporting it. that is going to be something we don t want to do. it s not like you can just shut down the electronic transfers of cash. we ve done that. we ve shut the normal banking system off from isil. what we need to do now is be effective and only the world community together can do that. one of the things the resolution does is exactly what george said. if you re a middleman, you re not dealing with isil, you sell it to someone else and it goes somewhere for commercial sale. every point in that process you re subject to sanctions. if you re indirect or direct, that s going to raise the price of participating directl
Cash? we ve done that. what we need to do now is be effective and only the world community together can do that. this resolution does exactly what george said. if you re a middle man you re not dealing with isil. isil sells something to you, you sell it to someone else and then it goes somewhere for commercial sale. every point in that process you re subject to sanctions, if you re indirect or direct. that s going to raise the price of participating but it s all that execution. we ve now got to work individually and collectively to make sure that the promises made in the resolution are kept. one of the things about isil, their strength is their weakness. the fact that they control a lot of territory, a lot of people, means that they have a constant need to replenish their money. if we can diminish their ability to do that, they have to make hard choices and they get weaker, not stronger. this is not an on/off switch.
first of all, i thought jack did a great job in getting the finance minister sitting an the security council table for the first time since the united nations was created. it s often a table where you see divisions in the world played out. this complete unity and that sends a very important message, not just to the terrorists they can t divide us but also to the middle men, traitors, there is no place to hide in the international community. when you come to isis, daesh, it s of course a very unusual terrorist organization because it physically controls a lot of territory. one of the big challenges and one of the reasons it has to be defeated. and part of its revenues come from a kind of extortion version of a state. it extracts revenues in taxes essentially from the people it is suppressing. but it also exports oil and other materials and we are both militarily, british forces, u.s. forces and others going after