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Arria-formula Meeting on Ukraine
Tomorrow morning (17 July), Russia will convene an Arria-formula meeting titled “The Reign of Terror: Crimes of the Kiev Regime in Ukraine and Beyond”. At the time of writing, the briefers had not been announced. Russia’s Chargé d’Affaires to the UN, Anna Evstigneeva, is expected to deliver opening remarks.
The meeting, which will begin at 10 am EDT and take place in Conference Room 5 at UN Headquarters, is expected to be broadcast on UNTV. It will be open to representatives of all UN member states and permanent observers, UN entities, civil society organisations, and the press.
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Tomorrow morning (16 July), Security Council members are expected to receive a briefing in closed consultations on the Secretary-General’s latest report on the implementation of resolution 1701 (S/2026/566), which was circulated to Council members on 9 July and covers developments...
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Tomorrow morning (15 July), the Security Council will hold its quarterly briefing on Colombia. Special Representative and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia Miroslav Jenča will brief on recent developments and the Secretary-General’s latest 90-day report on the mission (S/2026/528), which...
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Tomorrow morning (14 July), the Security Council is expected to hold an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on West Africa and the Sahel. Special Representative and Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) Leonardo Santos...
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On Tuesday morning (14 July), the Security Council is expected to hold a meeting under the “Maintenance of international peace and security” agenda item to vote on a draft resolution extending the monthly reporting requirement for the Secretary-General on attacks...
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On Monday afternoon (13 July), the Security Council is expected to hold an open briefing on Yemen under the agenda item “the situation in the Middle East”. The Yemeni government requested an emergency meeting in a 7 July letter from...
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On Monday morning (13 July), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will convene an Arria-formula meeting titled “The Normative Gaps Linking Natural Resources and Peace: Foundations and Perspectives”. The DRC’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, and Francophonie, Thérèse...
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Tomorrow morning (9 July), the Security Council will hold an open briefing on Ukraine. The meeting was requested by Ukraine in a 6 July letter and supported by the Council’s European members (Denmark, France, Greece, Latvia, and the UK). The anticipated...
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On Friday morning (10 July), the Security Council is scheduled to hold a briefing under the “Non-Proliferation” agenda item to discuss the implementation of resolution 2231 of 20 July 2015, which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran‘s nuclear programme....
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Tomorrow (8 July), the Security Council will convene for its annual open debate on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Council president in July, has titled this year’s open debate “Honouring the promise of...
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the president of the Security Council in July. Council members adopted the provisional programme of work for the month earlier today (1 July). The DRC will organise two signature events this month....
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Tomorrow afternoon (29 June), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution renewing the 1533 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) sanctions regime until 1 July 2027, and the mandate of the Group of Experts (GoE) assisting the...
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On Monday morning (29 June), the Security Council will hold an open briefing on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question” (MEPQ). The anticipated briefers are Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident Coordinator at the Office of the...
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Tomorrow morning (26 June), the Security Council will hold an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on Sudan. The meeting is being held pursuant to resolution 2715 of 1 December 2023, which requested the Secretary-General to provide a briefing every 120 days on the...
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Tomorrow afternoon (26 June), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including the work of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)....
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Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you to the co-organisers for the invitation to participate in this discussion on strengthening the implementation of Security Council decisions. For the over twenty years, Security Council Report has closely followed and reported on the...
