The targeted financial sanctions-proliferation financing (TFS-PF) obligations and The designated list

1. Publishing the targeted financial sanctions-proliferation financing (TFS-PF) obligations

“1. Organizations, entities, and individuals have responsibilities to regularly monitor the designated list as the links below, immediately implement the sanctions of the UNSCR against designated organizations, entities, and individuals and take appropriate preventive measures pursuant to the provisions of Decree 81/2019/ND-CP of the Government on preventing and countering the proliferation of WMD under the direction of the ministries, ministerial-level agencies, provincial-level People's Committees and the cooperation of the Viet Nam national presiding agency on preventing and countering the proliferation of  WMD or when detecting organizations, entities, and individuals in the designated list.

2. Financial institutions (FIs), designated non-financial business professions, payment intermediaries and related organizations, entities, and individuals have the following responsibilities:

(1) Apply measures to identify and update customer information in accordance with the Law on money laundering. When there is a suspicion that a customer or a customer's transaction is related to the PF, the suspension of circulation and the freezing of assets related to PF and counter-proliferation of WMD must be immediately implemented, and at the same time notify the competent authorities to implement these measures; the suspension of circulation or freezing of assets may only cancel when it is instructed by the focal unit; report to the focal point the results of the compliance actions including those that were unsuccessful;

(2) Regularly update the list of designated organizations, entities, and individuals; organizations, entities, and individuals removed from the designated list; report to the National presiding agency or the focal unit any related WMD assets that are frozen or the result of compliance with UNSC related requirements, including transactions in progress;

(3) Provide information to the focal unit and competent authorities on preventing and countering the proliferation of WMD and PF upon request;

(4) Develop and implement internal regulations on preventing and countering the proliferation of WMD and PF pursuant to the provisions of Decree 81/2019/ND-CP dated 11/11/2019 of the Government on preventing and countering the proliferation of WMD and related laws”.

2. The designated list

List of organizations, entities, and individuals designated by the UNSC in relation to the proliferation of WMD and PF:

The list is designated according to Resolutions 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), 2094 (2013), and 2270 (2016) and successor resolutions (Link https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/1718/materials).

The list is designated according to Resolutions 2231 (2015) (Link https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/2231/list).