December 2008 Monthly Forecast

Posted 26 November 2008
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Notable Dates

Reports Due for Consideration in December

Document Requesting Report

by 15 November (although not released)

SG report on the UN Mission in CAR/Chad (MINURCAT)

S/RES/1834

30 November

SG report on UN Integrated Office in Burundi (BINUB)

S/RES/1791

30 November

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

S/RES/1828

December

ICTY/ICTR semi-annual report and assessment

S/2008/326

S/2008/322

1 December

SG report on the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Cyprus)

S/RES/1818

1 December

Panel of Experts report on Liberia

S/RES/1819

5 December

Monitoring Group report on Somalia

S/RES/1811

early December

Semi-annual report on Sierra Leone PBC framework

PBC/2/SLE/1

early December

Semi-annual report on Burundi PBC framework

PBC/2/BDI/10

by 15 December

SG semi-annual report on Iraq-Kuwait missing persons/property report

S/2006/469

27 December

SG report on the implementation of resolution 1701

S/RES/1822

31 December

SG semi-annual report for UN Office in West Africa (UNOWA)

S/2007/754

31 December

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S/RES/1821

31 December

UN Peacebuilding Office in the CAR (BONUCA)

S/2007/702 and 703

31 December

SG report on the UN Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS)

S/RES/1580

31 December

SG report on UN Integrated Office in Burundi (BINUB)

S/RES/1791

31 December

1540 Committee report

S/RES/1810

31 December

United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC)

S/RES/1815

December 2008

Mandates Expire

Relevant Document

15 December

UNFICYP (Cyprus)

S/RES/1818

20 December

Panel of Experts on Liberia

S/RES/1819

20 December

Sanctions Monitoring Group on Somalia

S/RES/1811

S/2008/378

31 December

UNDOF (Golan Heights)

S/RES/1821

31 December

BONUCA (Central African Republic)

S/2007/702 and 703

31 December

UNOGBIS (Guinea-Bissau)

S/2007/700 and 701

31 December

MONUC (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

S/RES/1794

31 December

BINUB (Burundi)

S/RES/1791

31 December

Working Group on Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Africa

S/2007/771

31 December

Multinational Force in Iraq, provisions for the Development Fund for Iraq, and the International Advisory and Monitory Board

S/RES/1790

31 December

UNIIIC

S/RES/1815

31 December

Special Envoy for the Lord’s Resistance Army-Affected areas

S/2000/719

31 December

Group of Experts and Sanctions on the DRC

S/RES/1807

S/2008/312

December 2008

Other Important Dates

2 December

Expiration of resolution 1816 on fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia

15 December

Council target for a decision on a UN military component to follow-up in EUFOR (S/RES/1834)

19 December

Liberia sanctions expire

31 December

ICTR current judges’ term expires & terms of ad litem judges expire

31 December

1540 Committee to report to the Council on options for more effective funding mechanisms (S/RES/1810)

Also expected in December:

  • The Council may receive a briefing by the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Lord’s Resistance Army-affected Areas, Joaquim Chissano.
  • The Council is expected to receive a regular briefing from the ICC Prosecutor on his work in Sudan.
  • The Council is expected to receive a briefing from High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Miroslav Lajcak of Slovakia.
  • The Council is expected to receive a briefing from the UNIIIC Chief Investigator Daniel Bellemare.
  • The Council is expected to receive a briefing by the High-Level Coordinator for Iraq, Gennady P. Tarasov.
  • A report on the outcomes of the Council’s mission to Afghanistan from 21-28 November.

Important Dates over the Horizon

  • A council mission to Haiti is still being discussed.
  • Iraqi provincial elections are scheduled for January 2009.
  • An international meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is expected to be held in Moscow in spring 2009.
  • Legislative elections in Lebanon are scheduled for May 2009.
  • Presidential and legislative elections in Sudan are scheduled for July 2009
  • Legislative elections in Chad are currently slated for 2009.
  • Presidential elections are expected in Afghanistan in September 2009.

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