August 2009 Monthly Forecast

Posted 30 July 2009
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Aide Memoire

Important matters pending for the Council include:

  • In a presidential statement on Darfur in July 2008 (S/PRST/2008/27) the Council welcomed the UN investigation into the 8 July attack against UNAMID peacekeepers. The results are still awaited.
  • The Security Council’s request, in resolution 1820 on sexual violence, that the Secretary-General systematically include in his written reports on conflict situations his observations concerning the protection of women and girls and recommendations in this regard, has yet to be fully implemented.
  • The Council has yet to address the Secretary-General’s summary of the report of the UN Board of Inquiry into incidents involving UN facilities and personnel in Gaza between 27 December and 19 January, submitted to it on 4 May (S/2009/250).
  • The monthly reports from the Kosovo Force (KFOR) appear to have stopped. The last one available covers the period 1-31 July 2008.
  • The quarterly reports of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan are now always outdated when released. (The last report, released in June, covered the period from August 2008 to January 2009.)
  • UNAMl reports on human rights in Iraq, in the past produced every two to three months, are now always very delayed and thus outdated when published. The last report, released in late April, covered the period from 1 July to 31 December 2008.
  • The Secretary-General is yet to appoint a new Assistant-Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, following the resignation of the previous incumbent, Jane Holl Lute, on 1 April.
  • The Secretary-General’s recommendations to the Council regarding specific action on sexual violence as put forward in his 2007 report on protection of civilians in armed conflict (S/2007/643) have yet to be implemented in country-specific situations.
  • The Council requested the Secretariat on 21 November 2006 (S/2006/928) to update the index to Council notes and statements on working methods. This has not been published.
  • 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.
  • The Council has yet to address the latest report of the Lebanon Independent Border Assessment Team, which was issued on 25 August 2008 (S/2008/582).
  • The 2005 World Summit requested that the Security Council consider reforms for the Military Staff Committee. This has yet to be addressed.
  • The Secretary-General is yet to report to the Council on Kenya as requested in a February 2008 presidential statement (S/PRST/2008/4).

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