DPRK (North Korea)
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In August the chair of the DPRK Sanctions Committee is expected to give his quarterly briefing to the Council. No new Council decision is expected.
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The Council is likely to extend the mandate of the Panel of Experts that assists the DPRK Sanctions Committee in June.
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The Council seems likely to take up the situation involving the ROK and DPRK arising from the sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean navy ship, on 26 March as a result of an explosion which killed dozens of sailors. The ship was near a disputed maritime border between the ROK and the DPRK in the Yellow Sea.
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In May the chair of the DPRK Sanctions Committee is expected to brief the Council and the final report of the Panel of Experts which assists the Committee is due in early May. No substantive Council decision is expected, however, the mandate of the panel expires on 12 June.
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The chairman of the DPRK Sanctions Committee is expected to brief the Council in February, but no Council action is likely.
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The chairman of the 1718 Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is expected to brief the Council in November. The interim report of the Committee's Panel of Experts is scheduled to be submitted by 11 November. The Council extended the deadline for the report by sixty days in September, when it was originally due. At time of writing no Council action was expected.
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The Council is unlikely to take the key issues relating to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear programme in September. However, an interim report is due from the Panel of Experts assisting the Sanctions Committee. The report was requested in resolution 1874, which established the Panel and was adopted on 12 June after the DPRK’s latest missile test.
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The Council is expecting a briefing in August by the chairman of the 1718 Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). No action in the Council itself is scheduled. However, many Council members have noted how effective and balanced the format involving the whole fifteen members was in discussion of the 6 July press statement from the president.
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At press time the P5 and Japan were holding consultations to determine a Council response to the launch of a rocket on 5 April, claimed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to be for the purpose of placing a satellite in orbit.
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The Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is expected to submit its annual report in January and brief the Council on recent activity. At press time it was not known who the new chairman of the Committee will be. (Italy, the current chair, leaves the Council on 31 December.) The Committee’s report is likely to be limited as there has been no Committee activity since July 2007. No Council action is expected.
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The Chairman of the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata of Italy, will brief the Council in informal consultations in October. The Committee must report to the Council every ninety days.
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The Chairman of the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Ambassador Marcello Spatafora of Italy, will brief the Council in July. The Committee, which was established by resolution 1718 following North Korea’s October 2006 nuclear test, must report to the Council every 90 days.
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is expected to be on the Council’s work programme in April. The Chairman of the Sanctions Committee, Ambassador Marcello Spatafora of Italy, will provide a briefing during Council consultations on the issue. The Committee has been largely inactive since early 2007 after deciding to await the outcome of the six-party talks on the DPRK’s nuclear programme. The briefing is unlikely to contain any new information leading to Council action.
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The Chairman of the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic Republic of North Korea, Ambassador Marcello Spatafora of Italy, will brief the Council in January. Although resolution 1718, adopted in October 2006 after North Korea’s nuclear test, mandated a report every ninety days, because of the positive developments in 2007 the Sanctions Committee seems unlikely to have much to report.
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The Chairman of the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, Ambassador Marcello Spatafora of Italy, will brief the Council in October. Resolution 1718, which established the Committee in October 2006 following North Korea's nuclear test, requires a report every ninety days.
