March 2014 Monthly Forecast

Overview

Luxembourg will preside over the Security Council in March.

An open debate on children and armed conflict is planned, to be chaired by Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Luxembourg. Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui, Executive Director of UNICEF Anthony Lake and Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Hervé Ladsous are among expected briefers. A former Sierra Leone child soldier, Alhaji Babah Sawaneh, who spoke to the Council on 20 November 2001 when he was 14, is also expected to address the Council.  

Debates are expected on the situations in Afghanistan, with a briefing by Ján Kubiš, the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and in Haiti, by Sandra Honoré, the head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 

Luxembourg is planning a wrap-up session to be held at the end of the month in a private meeting.

Briefings are expected on:

Briefings, followed by consultations, are expected on:

Briefings in consultations are likely on:

Formal sessions will be held to adopt resolutions renewing the mandate of:

A formal session will also be needed if the Council decides to continue the partial lifting of the arms embargo on Somalia.

An informal interactive dialogue regarding the AU Mission in Somalia and an Arria formula meeting with religious leaders from the CAR are also contemplated. 

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