Syria
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Tomorrow morning (26 June), Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos will brief the Council on the fourth report since the adoption of resolution 2139 on humanitarian access in Syria (S/2014/427). The briefing will be followed by consultations. Besides updating Council...
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Tomorrow (4 June), Sigrid Kaag, the Special Coordinator of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)-UN Joint Mission, will brief Council members in consultations. She will present the eighth monthly report on the implementation of resolution 2118, which...
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Sigrid Kaag, Special Coordinator of the OPCW-UN Joint Mission, will brief Council members on the the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons. This will be a sensitive briefing given the Secretary-General has reported that the 30 June final deadline for complete removal and destruction of the arsenal will not be met. Later in the month, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos will brief Council members on humanitarian access.
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Tomorrow morning (29 May), Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Kyung-wha Kang will brief Council members in consultations on the third report since the adoption of resolution 2139 on humanitarian access in Syria (S/2014/365). Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos last...
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It seems France is ready to put a draft resolution referring the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in blue quite soon. At press time, some Council members appear to be looking at the possibility of a...
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Tomorrow afternoon (13 May), UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi will brief Security Council members in consultations on his activities since his last briefing on 13 March. That briefing took place shortly after the second round of...
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Tomorrow (8 May), Special Coordinator of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)-UN Joint Mission Sigrid Kaag will brief Council members in consultations. She will present the seventh monthly report on the implementation of resolution 2118, which required...
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In May, Sigrid Kaag, Special Coordinator of the OPCW-UN Joint Mission, will brief Council members on the chemical weapons track. Separately, OCHA will brief on humanitarian access and Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi will brief on the political track.
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Tomorrow morning (30 April), Emergency Relief Coordinator and head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Valerie Amos will brief Council members in consultations on the second report since the adoption of resolution 2139 on humanitarian access...
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Tomorrow (23 April), Special Coordinator of the Joint Mission of the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Sigrid Kaag will brief Council members in consultations via video teleconference on the implementation of resolution 2118, which...
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Later today, Council members are set to be briefed by Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos and Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernández-Taranco in consultations on the situation in Homs. It seems that France requested the briefing, expected to...
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Tomorrow morning (15 April), Council members will convene for an “Arria-formula” meeting organised by France with a focus on detention of Syrians by the Syrian regime, human right violations committed during detention in Syria and justice for crimes committed in...
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Tomorrow morning (8 April), High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will brief Security Council members on the situations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Libya, Mali, South Sudan and Syria. Pillay last briefed the Council during a 12 February...
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Tomorrow (3 April), Special Coordinator of the Joint Mission of the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Sigrid Kaag will brief Council members, via video-teleconference in consultations, on the sixth monthly report on the implementation...
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Sigrid Kaag, Special Coordinator of the OPCW-UN Joint Mission, will brief on the implementation of resolution 2118 regarding the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons. Later in the month, it is expected that OCHA head Valerie Amos will brief on the second monthly report on the implementation of resolution 2139 on humanitarian access.
