July 2007 Monthly Forecast

Posted 28 June 2007
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Aide Memoire

Important matters pending before the Council include:

  • The  2005 World Summit requested the Security Council to consider reforms relating to the Military Staff Committee. This has yet to be addressed.
  • The issue of small arms raised by Argentina in March 2006 is still awaiting a decision. South Africa circulated a draft presidential statement in March 2007. The issue has since been included as a footnote on the Council’s calendar but it has not yet been taken up.  The absence of a Council decision may leave future periodic Secretary-General’s reports in abeyance.
  • The December 2004 report by the Secretary-General on human rights violations in Côte d’Ivoire, requested by a presidential statement, has still not been made public. Also on Côte d’Ivoire, the December 2005 report by the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide has not been published.
  • On the DRC, the Council is still to consider imposing individual sanctions under  resolution 1698 against armed groups that recruit children. Nor is it clear whether the Security Council has abandoned the issue of natural resources in the DRC for the time being.
  • On West Africa, the Council has not followed up its 16 March consultations on cross-border issues.

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