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On May 24, 2017, the Security Council passed a resolution that featured a new framework developed by its Counter-Terrorism Committee entitled “Comprehensive International Framework to Counter Terrorist Narratives,” which contains “recommended guidelines and good practices to effectively counter the ways that ISIL (Da’esh), Al Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities use their narratives to encourage, motivate, and recruit others to commit terrorist acts.” The Council stressed that member states and UN entities should follow the guidelines and urged “Member States and the United Nations system to take measures, pursuant to international law, to address all drivers of violent extremism conducive to terrorism, both internal and external, in a balanced manner as set out in the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.” The Council also directed “the Counter Terrorism Committee, with the support of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), and in consultation with the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF) and other key actors, to facilitate international cooperation to implement the Comprehensive International Framework.”