Security Council Visiting Missions
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At Switzerland’s invitation, members of the Security Council visited Geneva on 25 and 26 August to mark the 75th anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. (For background information, see our 25 August What’s in Blue story.) The informal visit of...
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On Saturday (10 February), the last day of the Council’s visiting mission to Colombia, the delegation traveled to the Pacific port city of Buenaventura in the Valle del Cauca department, one of the most conflict-affected areas of the country. While...
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On Friday (9 February), the second day of the Council’s visiting mission to Colombia, the delegation traveled to the southern Caquetá department to visit a former territorial area for training and reintegration (TATR) called Agua Bonita. Council members then returned...
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Yesterday (8 February), the Security Council began its visiting mission to Colombia with a full day of back-to-back meetings in Bogotá. Council members met with various Colombian actors involved in the implementation of the 2016 Final Agreement for Ending the...
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This afternoon (7 February), Council members will depart New York to begin a visiting mission to Colombia that concludes on 11 February. The UK (the penholder on Colombia), Guyana, and Switzerland are co-leading the mission. The overarching goal of the...
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On Friday (6 October), Security Council members held their 17th annual joint consultative meeting with members of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Members of the respective bodies adopted a joint communiqué at the...
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Yesterday afternoon (5 October), Security Council members held their eighth informal joint seminar with the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC). The informal seminars have been organised since 2016 to encourage greater interaction between the two bodies. Earlier in...
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Council members arrived this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for their 17th annual joint consultative meeting with the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC), which will be held on Friday (6 October). This meeting will be preceded tomorrow (5...
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Yesterday (12 March), on the last day of the Council’s four-day visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), members received first-hand accounts of the deleterious effects on civilians of the ongoing conflict in the country. They held...
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This morning (11 March), Council members left Kinshasa for Goma, the capital of North Kivu, the most conflict-affected province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They held meetings with provincial authorities, regional actors based in...
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Council members arrived yesterday evening (9 March) in Kinshasa for their visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Upon arrival at the airport, the Council delegation interacted briefly with members of the press, and the mission’s co-leads—Ambassador Nicolas...
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Security Council members leave this evening (8 March) for a visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). France and Gabon are co-leading the mission, which will take place from tomorrow (9 March) to Sunday (12 March). The...
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Addis Ababa –Yesterday (22 October) Security Council members held their 13th joint annual consultative meeting with the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC). The day before (21 October), Council members held informal consultations with the PSC, which have been organised...
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Addis Ababa – Yesterday (20 October), Security Council members visited South Sudan, ahead of the 12 November deadline for completing the pre-transition period of the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS). Council members arrived...
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Nairobi – Security Council members arrived in Nairobi today (19 October) ahead of a visiting mission to South Sudan tomorrow (20 October) and the AU (21 – 22 October). During the one-day visit to South Sudan, Council members will push...
