Reports Due in April

Relevant Document 

SG quarterly report on UNOMIG (UN Observer Mission in Georgia)

S/RES/1716

mid April

SG quarterly report on UNMIS (UN Mission in the Sudan)

S/RES/1714 

mid April

SG semi-annual report on MINURSO (UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara)

S/RES/1720

19 April

SG semi-annual report on resolution 1559 (Lebanon/Syria)

S/PRST/2004/36 

20 April

SG report on progress by Somalia’s Transitional Federal Institutions toward an all-inclusive political process and on the recent Technical Assessment Mission

S/RES/1744 

23 April

SG quarterly report on UNMIN is likely to be discussed in May (UN Mission in Nepal)

S/RES/1740

30 April

SG regular report on UNMEE (UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea)

S/RES/1741

30 April

SG regular report on BINUB (UN Integrated Office in Burundi)

S/RES/1719 

30 April

SG monthly report on Darfur

S/RES/1590

April 2007                       

Mandate Expires  

Relevant Document

15 April

UNOMIG

S/RES/1716

15 April

MONUC (UN Mission in the DRC)

S/RES/1742

30 April

UNMIS

S/RES/1714 

30 April

MINURSO

S/RES/1720

April 2007

Other Important Dates

20 Mar-3 Apr

Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, John Holmes, will visit Sudan, Chad and the CAR. He is likely to brief the Council when he returns.                                              

23 Mar-2 Apr

The Secretary-General will visit the Middle East (Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia) and participate in the Arab League Summit in Riyadh on 28-29 March. He will brief the Council upon his return.  Included in these early April discussions with the Council will be the Secretary-General’s report on resolution 1701  (Lebanon) which was postponed from 27 March to early April (S/2007/147).

9 April

Presidential elections in Timor-Leste

13 April

Resumption of peace talks between the Ugandan government and the LRA have tentatively been scheduled to take place in Juba.

16 April

A Somali national reconciliation conference in Mogadishu is being planned.

17-18 April

A UNHCR-sponsored international conference at the ministerial-level on the situation of Iraqi displacement will be held in Geneva.

20 April

The Security Council will review the Liberian diamond sanctions (S/RES/1731).

30 April

A donor conference for the Iraq Compact is being planned.

Also expected in April:

• The North Korea Sanctions Committee will report to the Council in early April (S/RES/1718 ).
• The Panel of Experts mid-term briefing to the Sudan Sanctions Committee originally expected in late March may be pushed to mid-April.
• The Somalia Sanctions Committee is expected to receive the Monitoring Group’s mid-term briefing in late April (S/RES/1724).
• The preliminary proposal from the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Future Status Process for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, was submitted to the Security Council in March. It is expected to be introduced by Ahtisaari in early April.
• The Peacebuilding Commission’s next round of country-specific meetings are expected in April for Burundi and in April or May for Sierra Leone.
• Parliamentary elections in Chad are scheduled for April.