Security Council Report
Monthly Forecast July 2009

25 June: Update Report on Peacekeeping: Relationship with TCCs/PCCs: The Council is expected to hold a public debate on UN peacekeeping on 29 June. Turkey, as the Council’s president in June, wants to focus the debate on the Council’s relationship with troop contributing countries (TCCs), police contributing countries (PCCs) and major financial contributors. The debate is expected to feature up to twenty TCCs/PCCs including the ten largest troop contributors as well as major financial contributors. The Council will also be briefed by Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy and Under-Secretary-General of the Department of Field Support Susana Malcorra. Word and PDF

23 June: Update Report on Liberia:  On Thursday 25 June the Council will meet in closed consultations to discuss the Secretary-General’s report on the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) which was issued on 10 June. A briefing by Alain Le Roy, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations who just visited Liberia is likely. UNMIL’s mandate expires on 30 September 2009. There will also be a briefing by the chairman of the Liberia Sanctions Committee, Libyan Ambassador Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham. The Committee received the midterm report from the Liberia Panel of Experts at the end of May and met on 16 June. At the time of writing no outcome was expected although the recent visit of a Council mission to Liberia has certainly focused the members’ understanding of the issues. Word and PDF 

22 June: Update Report on Northern Uganda and LRA-Affected Areas: On 25 June Joaquim Chissano, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Lord’s Resistance Army-Affected Areas, is expected to give a final briefing to the Council before his mandate is suspended on 30 June. His last briefing to the Council took place in closed consultations in December 2008. (NOTE: The 25 June briefing was postponed to 15 July) Word and PDF

4 June: Update Report on Sri Lanka: The Council members are expecting a briefing on 5 June by the Secretary-General on his 23 May visit to Sri Lanka. The format is likely to be an interactive dialogue involving all Council members, the Secretary-General and the Sri Lankan permanent representative. It will not be a Council meeting as such. It will be an informal, closed event held elsewhere in the UN—not in normal Council meeting rooms. There is interest in hearing the Secretary-General’s eye-witness account of the humanitarian situation and the conflict zone and his assessment. Among the main points likely to be covered are the situation in the internally displaced persons camps, estimates of the number of civilians killed, commitments made by the Sri Lankan government and prospects for political reconciliation. Word and PDF