Notable Dates, October 2009 Monthly Forecast : Security Council Report

Notable Dates

Reports for consideration in October		Document Requesting Report
16 September	SG report on Women, Peace and Security (S/2009/465)	S/PRST/2008/39
30 September	SG report on Timor-Leste (UNMIT)	S/RES/1867
30 September	SG report on the DRC (MONUC)	S/RES/1856
30 September	SG report on Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI)	S/RES/1880
30 September	SG report on Kosovo (UNMIK)	S/RES/1244
30 September	SG report on Somalia	S/RES/1872
late September	SG report on Sudan (UNMIS)	S/RES/1881
15 October	DRC Group of Experts	S/RES/1857
22 October	SG report on Iraq-Kuwait (missing persons and return of property)	S/2006/469
by end of October	SG report on Chad/CAR (MINURCAT)	S/RES/1861
October 2009	Mandates Expire	Relevant Document
13 October	International Security Assistance Force to Afghanistan (ISAF)	S/RES/1833
15 October	Haiti (MINUSTAH)	S/RES/1840
15 October	Sudan Panel of Experts	S/RES/1841
31 October	Côte d’Ivoire Sanctions and Group of Experts	S/RES/1842
October 2009	Other Important Dates
9 October	The village (suco) and sub-village (aldeia) elections for chiefs and councils in Timor-Leste are due.
15 October	The General Assembly is expected to hold elections for five Security Council seats.
31 October	The mandate for the High-Level Coordinator for Iraq-Kuwait missing persons and property ends.
Also expected in October: The president of the ICJ, Hisashi Owada, is expected to brief the Council. The Secretary-General’s Special Representative and head of UNMIK, Lamberto Zannier, is likely to brief the Council. Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Timor-Leste, Atul Khare, is likely to brief the Council. The Council is expected to hold an open debate on the implementation of resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. The Somalia Monitoring Group is scheduled to provide its midterm briefing to the Sanctions Committee. The final report of the Group of Experts for Côte d’Ivoire is expected. Special Envoy Terje Rod-Larsen is expected to breif the Council on the implementation of resolution 1559 concerning Lebanon.

Important Dates over the Horizon

Local elections are expected in Kosovo on 15 November 2009.
Presidential elections are expected in Côte d’Ivoire on 29 November 2009.
The Council is expected to review the extension of the terms of permanent judges in the ICTR/ICTY who were members of the Appeals Chamber by 31 December 2009.
Legislative elections in Chad are slated for 2010.
Parliamentary elections in Afghanistan are scheduled for late 2009.
The Human Rights Council will conduct its Universal Periodic Review of Côte d’Ivoire and the DRC on 3 December.
Parliamentary elections for Iraq are provisionally scheduled for January 2010.
Palestinian presidential and legislative elections are to be held in January 2010.
The trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is expected to continue until February 2010 with a possible ruling in July and a sentencing in August.
Elections (presidency and parliament, south Sudanese presidency, state governors, southern parliament and state assemblies) in Sudan are expected in April 2010.
General elections in Myanmar are slated for 2010.
The ICJ is expected to make an advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo’s February 2008 unilateral declaration of independence sometime in 2010.
Presidential and legislative elections in Liberia are scheduled for 2011.

Full forecast

October 2009 Monthly Forecast

Notable Dates

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