Aide Memoire
Important matters pending for the Council include:
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The Council is yet to take up on the Secretary-General’s recommendations regarding protection of civilians, presented in his October 2007 report (S/2007/643).
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The 2005 World Summit requested that the Security Council consider reforms for the Military Staff Committee. This has yet to be addressed.
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In resolution 1327 on the implementation of the report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (the Brahimi Report, S/2000/809), the Council decided to review periodically the implementation of the provisions contained in the resolution’s annex. No such reviews have occurred in the past three years.
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The quarterly reports of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan are now routinely outdated when released. (The last report, released in September, covered the period 1 February–30 April 2008.) The next report covering the period 1 May-30 July 2008 is yet to be released.
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Similarly, UNAMI reports on human rights, which in the past were produced every two to three months, are now usually delayed by several months and are therefore quite outdated. (The last report, released in March, covered the period from 1 July to 31 December 2007.)
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The Council requested the Secretary-General on 21 November 2006 (S/2006/928) to update the index to Council notes and statements on working methods. This has not been published.
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On Western Sahara, in April the Council in resolution 1813 called upon the parties to continue negotiations. But there have been no further talks, nor any briefing to the Council on the situation.
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On the DRC, the Council sanctions committee has not acted on individual sanctions under resolution 1698 against armed groups that recruit children, despite MONUC reports about the problem continuing on a serious scale.
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The Secretary-General has yet to put forward proposals for the delineation of the international borders of Lebanon, especially in the Sheb’a Farms area, in accordance with resolution 1701, and respond to the cartographic, legal and political implications of the alternative path suggested by the Government of Lebanon in its seven-point plan.
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The Council is awaiting the PBC’s response to its May request for advice and recommendations on the situation in the Central African Republic (S/2008/383).
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The Secretariat is yet to report to the Council on Kenya as requested in its 6 February presidential statement (S/PRST/2008/4).
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On 7 December 2007 the Council asked the Secretary-General to provide an outline of the mandate of the adviser on the prevention of genocide and of the implications of upgrading this position from an Assistant Secretary-General to Under Secretary-General (S/2007/722). At press time, no response had been released.
