Security Council Subsidiary Bodies
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As is customary in December, the outgoing chairs of the Council’s subsidiary bodies are expected to provide a briefing on their experiences.
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As is customary in December, the outgoing chairs of the Council’s subsidiary bodies are expected to provide a briefing on their experiences.
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The Military Staff Committee (MSC) is the oldest subsidiary body of the Security Council, with its role explicitly mentioned in the UN Charter. It is to advise and assist the Security Council on all military requirements for maintaining international peace and security. However, for most of its life, the MSC has been dormant and unable to fulfill this responsibility.
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As is customary in December, the outgoing chairs of the Council’s subsidiary bodies are expected to provide a briefing on their experiences.
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As is customary in December, the outgoing chairs of subsidiary bodies are expected to provide a briefing on their experiences.
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As is customary in December, the outgoing chairs of subsidiary bodies are expected to provide a briefing on their experiences.
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Every December the outgoing chairs of subsidiary bodies provide a briefing on their experience.
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It has become a tradition that every December the outgoing chairs of subsidiary bodies have provided a briefing on their experience.
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Not knowing in advance which subsidiary bodies a new member would chair left insufficient time to prepare—either to secure the right expertise within their teams, or even to have a proper handover from the exiting chair. Permanent members opposed several efforts aimed at changing the practice, but in 2016, the new election timetable prompted Council members to agree on several new practices for the incoming members’ longer preparatory period, including an earlier and more consultative process of appointing the chairs of Council subsidiary bodies.
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Every December since 2002, the outgoing chairs of subsidiary bodies have provided a briefing on their experience.
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In October, the Council is scheduled to receive its annual briefing from the chairs of its counter-terrorism-related committees, Ambassador Sacha Sergio Llorenty Solíz (Bolivia), chair of the 1540 Committee, which focuses on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; Ambassador Kairat Umarov (Kazakhstan), chair of the 1267/1989/2253 Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee; and Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra Velásquez (Peru), chair of the 1373 Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). Solíz will also address the joint activities of all three committees.
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Every December, the chairs of the subsidiary bodies who will be leaving the Council at the end of the year provide a briefing on their experience. The Council will receive briefings from the five Permanent Representatives completing their countries’ two-year terms on the Council.
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The insert in this Forecast contains an updated list of Security Council penholders and chairs of subsidiary bodies as of January 2017. The table does not contain an exhaustive list of all the agenda items of which the Council is...
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Every year, the Security Council revisits its allocation of chairmanships of its subsidiary bodies, a task entrusted to elected Council members. As this chart illustrates, there is scant correlation between the “penholders” for situation-specific agenda items and the chairs of the relevant subsidiary bodies.
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In December, the subsidiary body chairpersons from countries that will be finishing their two-year terms on the Council are expected to brief about their work and experiences chairing sanctions committees and working groups.
