What's In Blue: June 2012
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Council members are scheduled to be briefed in consultations on Monday afternoon (2 July) on Libya and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) by Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. (The closed session briefing will follow a similar morning...
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On 2 and 3 July, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, will provide the Security Council with updates on the human rights situation in Syria, Libya, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and Sudan/South Sudan. At press time...
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Tomorrow (29 June), Council members are set to discuss the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) following a briefing by Edmond Mulet, Assistant Secretary-General of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). The briefing will focus on the Secretary-General’s special report (S/2012/230)...
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Tomorrow morning (28 June), Council members are scheduled to hold their bimonthly consultations on Sudan-South Sudan, in accordance with resolution 2046. Haile Menkerios, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Sudan and South Sudan, and Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian...
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Tomorrow morning (27 June) the Council is scheduled to hold its quarterly debate on the situation in Afghanistan. Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, is set to brief. It also appears that there is interest in having Stephen Evans, NATO’s...
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Tomorrow morning (27 June) the Council will adopt a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) for six months. (UNDOF was established in May 1974 to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Syria.) The draft...
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On Wednesday (27 June), the Council will hear a briefing by Abou Moussa, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and head of the UN Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) on the activities of the office with a particular emphasis on the...
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Tomorrow (27 June), the Council is set to renew the mandate of the UN Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) for another 12 months. The mandate renewal comes as fighting has escalated in the province of...
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Tomorrow morning (26 June) during consultations, Council members will receive a video-link briefing from Nasser al-Kidwa, a deputy to UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan, and will also hear from DPKO head Hervé Ladsous on the UN Supervision Mission...
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Tomorrow (26 June), the Council will hold consultations on sanctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), following receipt of the interim report of the Group of Experts (GoE) on the DRC (S/2012/348). Ambassador Agshin Mehdiyev (Azerbaijan) will brief...
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On Monday (25 June), the Council is scheduled to hold its semi-annual open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. (The last such debate was held on 9 November 2011.) As in the past, given the long list...
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Tomorrow afternoon (20 June), Council members will be updated on developments in Myanmar by the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Myanmar, Vijay Nambiar, who recently returned from a visit to the country. (Nambiar’s previous visit had been in early...
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Tomorrow morning (Wednesday, 20 June), the Council will hold a briefing with force commanders from UN peacekeeping operations. Force commanders from four missions—UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL),...
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Tomorrow afternoon (19 June), the Secretary-General’s High-Level Coordinator for Iraq-Kuwait Missing Persons and Property, Gennady Tarasov, is scheduled to brief Council members in consultations. The Council is likely to issue a press statement on the High-Level Coordinator’s activities and extend...
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Tomorrow afternoon (19 June) Council members will be briefed in consultations by the head of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), Major-General Robert Mood. The decision to have the briefing was taken on Friday (15 June) as reports of...
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On Monday morning (18 June) Council members are scheduled to hold consultations on the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) – the mission in the disputed border area between Sudan and South Sudan. UNISFA Force Commander, Lieutenant General Tadesse...
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Tomorrow morning (14 June) the Council is scheduled to hold consultations on the situation in Sudan and South Sudan, in accordance with resolution 2046. (Resolution 2046, adopted on 2 May, requested the Secretary-General to inform the Council every two weeks...
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Tomorrow (13 June), Security Council members and the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU PSC) are scheduled to hold their 6th annual consultative meeting, taking place in New York. (The previous consultations took place in Addis Ababa on 21...
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Tomorrow afternoon (12 June), Ambassador Néstor Osorio (Colombia), Chair of the Iran Sanctions Committee, will brief the Council in a regular 90-day update on the Committee’s work. As is usually the case with these quarterly briefings, Council members will likely...
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Tomorrow (Tuesday, 12 June), the Council will hear a briefing from Roger Meece, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). This briefing will be followed by...
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This afternoon (11 June), the Council is scheduled to be briefed in consultations by Hervé Ladsous, head of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), on the killings of seven UN peacekeepers in Côte d’Ivoire on Friday 8 June. (The timing...
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Following the briefing on 29 May by the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Yemen, Jamal Benomar, Council members began negotiating a draft resolution on Yemen. Introduced by the UK and discussed among the P5 before being circulated to the E10 on...
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Council members will be briefed tomorrow afternoon (7 June) on the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) in closed consultations by UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan and Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Hervé Ladsous. Prior to the consultations Council members...
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Today (5 June) Council members will be given an update on the situation in Guinea-Bissau by Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs. (This is in line with resolution 2048 of 18 May, which besides imposing a travel ban on...
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Council members adopted their provisional programme of work for June this morning. The month ahead looks like a busy one for the Council with five resolutions scheduled for adoption, two debates – Afghanistan and International Tribunals – and an open...