December 2009 Monthly Forecast

Posted 1 December 2009
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Aide Memoire

Important matters pending for the Council include:

  • The quarterly reports of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan are seriously delinquent (the last report, released in June, covered the period from August 2008 to January 2009).
  • 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 Secretary-General has not yet filled the post of Deputy Special Representative for UNMIS, which has been vacant since April 2008.
  • The post of the UN/AU Joint Special Representative for Darfur has been vacant since August.
  • Reports from the Kosovo Force (KFOR) have disappeared. The last one available covers the period from 1-31 July 2008.
  • 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 continues to delay responding to his mandate to assist with the delineation of the international borders of Lebanon, especially Sheb’a Farms, in accordance with resolution 1701, and to the proposals in this regard suggested by Lebanon.
  • The latest report of the Lebanon Independent Border Assessment Team,issued on 25 August 2008, still awaits Council consideration (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).
  • The December 2004 report by the Secretary-General on human rights violations in Côte d’Ivoire, requested in a May 2004 presidential statement (S/PRST/2004/17), has still not been made public. Also on Côte d’Ivoire, the December 2005 report by the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide has not been published.

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