Reports Due for Consideration in September

Documents Requesting Report

16 August

SG quarterly report on the UN Mission in Liberia including drawdown plans (UNMIL)

S/RES/1750

22 August

SG report on the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)

S/RES/1743

29 August

SG post-election report with recommendations on the future of the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT)

S/RES/1745

30 August

Sudan Sanctions Committee’s Panel of Experts report

S/RES/1713

30 August

SG monthly report on the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)

S/RES/1769

5 September

SG progress report on the implementation of resolution 1757 (Lebanon, international tribunal), delayed from 28 August

S/RES/1757

mid-September

SG assessment report on the UN Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL), delayed from mid August

S/RES/1734

20 September

SG contingency planning report for a possible UN operation to replace AMISOM

S/RES/1772

23 September

SG semi-annual report on the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)

S/RES/1746

September 2007                       

Mandates Expire  

Documents Requesting Report

29 September

Panel of Experts of the 1591 Sanctions Committee concerning Sudan

S/RES/1713
S/2006/926

30 September

UNMIL

S/RES/1750

September 2007

Other Important Dates

Greek Cypriot leader H.E. Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat will meet in the UN Protected Area in Nicosia.

8 September

A run-off presidential election in Sierra Leone is scheduled.

10-14 September

John Holmes, Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, will be in the DRC where will travel to the Kivus and possibly also Ituri.

10-14 September

The IAEA Board of Governors will meet in Vienna. They will discuss North Korea’s nuclear programme and the IAEA’s most recent progress report on Iran, due in early September.

10-28 September

Sixth session of the Human Rights Council

15 September

Carla Del Ponte’s term as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is scheduled to expire.

18 September

The General Assembly will convene its 62nd session and the general debate will begin on 25 September.

21 September

A meeting of the enlarged Darfur Contact Group, co-chaired by the UN Secretary-General and AU Chairperson, is expected on the sidelines of the General Assembly.

22-23 September

The Secretary-General has tentatively planned for a conference on the future of Iraq and a meeting of the Quartet on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.                               

23 September

A high-level meeting on Afghanistan is expected on the margins of the General Assembly.

25 September

A summit-level Security Council meeting on Africa is expected.

Also expected in September:

• The Secretary-General is expected to visit Sudan in the first week of September to help expedite the deployment of the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). Libya and Chad are also expected to be included on his itinerary.
• There are media reports that Nabih Berri, the parliamentary president, will convene the Lebanese parliament on 25 September to elect a new president of Lebanon as President Emile Lahoud’s term ends on 23 November and a new president has to be elected at least one month before.