Reports Due for Consideration in May

Document Requesting Report

21 April

SG semi-annual report (S/2008/264) on the implementation of resolution 1559 (Lebanon)

S/RES/1559

late April

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

S/RES/1769

late April

SG report on UN Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) (every four months)

S/RES/1793, S/2008/137

early May

Report from High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina

S/RES/1785

May

SG semi-annual report on UN Integrated Office in Burundi (BINUB)

S/RES/1791

May

SG report on the termination of operations related to letters of credit issued in the oil-for-food programme

S/2008/175

May 2008

Other Important Dates

early May

Ian Martin, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Nepal and head of UNMIN, is expected to brief the Council.

early May

The Council is expecting the semi-annual briefing of the chairs of the three counter-terrorism (resolutions 1267, 1373 and 1540) committees.

mid-May

A Secretariat briefing and Council consultations on security sector reform are expected.

mid-May

The Sudan sanctions committee expects the midterm briefing of the Panel of Experts.

mid-May

The Council is expecting a briefing by the High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Miroslav Lajcak of Slovakia.

Also expected in May:

• An open debate on protection of civilians is expected.
• An open debate on post-conflict peacebuilding is expected.
• The Middle East Quartet principals will gather in London on 2 May in a meeting chaired by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to assess the peace process launched in Annapolis in November 2007.
• A meeting of the Sudan Donor Consortium is scheduled for 5-7 May in Oslo. In the margins, UN-AU Joint Special Representative Rodolphe Adada is expected to chair a closed-door meeting on Darfur.
• The Sudan national census is expected to be completed by 6 May.
• A referendum on a new constitution in Myanmar has been scheduled for 10 May.
• Parliamentary elections are planned for 11 May in Serbia.
• The report of the expert mission on policing with findings and recommendations regarding Timor-Leste is expected to be completed in early or mid-May, when it will possibly be formally circulated to members in a letter from the Secretary-General.
• The Iraq Compact Annual Review Conference is scheduled to be held in Stockholm, Sweden on 29 May.
• The Council is expected to depart on a visiting mission to Africa in late May. A final schedule is still pending.