What's In Blue: December 2022
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This afternoon (21 December), following the vote on a draft resolution on Myanmar, the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution regarding a request by the AU to revise the operational timelines for the drawdown of the...
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This afternoon (21 December), the Security Council will convene for a briefing on Haiti. The anticipated briefers are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti and head of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti...
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This afternoon (21 December), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution on Myanmar, which was proposed by the UK (the penholder on the file). The draft resolution in blue demands an immediate end to all forms...
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Tomorrow morning (21 December), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution on mental health and psychosocial support for personnel of UN peace operations (that is, peacekeeping operations and special political missions), which was initiated by Mexico....
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Tomorrow morning (21 December), Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths are expected to provide the monthly briefings on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria, respectively. Consultations are scheduled to follow. The...
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Tomorrow morning (20 December), the Security Council is expected to vote on two draft resolutions: one renewing the mandate of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) for one year, and another lifting the...
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Tomorrow morning (20 December), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on Afghanistan. Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Roza Otunbayeva, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs...
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On Thursday (22 December) at 3 pm EST in UN Conference Room 1, Security Council members will hold an Arria-formula meeting on “Transitioning from Protracted Conflict and Fragility into Peace Through Sustainable Development’’. Kenya is hosting the meeting, which is...
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Tomorrow afternoon (19 December), the Security Council will convene for its biannual briefing on the implementation of resolution 2231 of 20 July 2015, which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear programme (JCPOA). Under-Secretary-General for Political and...
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On Monday morning (19 December), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland is the anticipated briefer. Closed...
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This afternoon (16 December), Security Council members will hold an informal interactive dialogue (IID) on Syria. (IIDs are informal closed meetings that allow for the participation of non-Council members. There are no meeting records of IIDs, and they are not included in...
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This morning (16 December), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the Monitoring Team supporting the 1988 Afghanistan Sanctions Committee. The same monitoring team also supports the 1267/1989/2253 Islamic State in Iraq...
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This morning (15 December), the Security Council convened for a high-level briefing on “Global counter-terrorism approach–-principles and the way forward”. India’s Minister of External Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, chaired the meeting, which was one of the signature events of India’s presidency....
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Tomorrow morning (16 December), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on Libya. Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Abdoulaye Bathily is the...
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Tomorrow (14 December), the Security Council will hold an open debate on “New Orientation for Reformed Multilateralism”, under the “Maintenance of international peace and security” agenda item. The meeting, which is a signature event of India’s Council presidency, will be...
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Tomorrow afternoon (13 December), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and head of UNMISS Nicholas Haysom will brief on the Secretary-General’s...
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Today (12 December) at 1:15 pm EST, there will be an Arria-formula meeting on youth, peace and security. The meeting, which is being convened by Ireland together with Ghana and incoming Council member Ecuador, will take place in the ECOSOC...
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Today (9 December), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution establishing a “humanitarian carve-out” to the asset freeze measures imposed by UN sanctions regimes. (The carve-out is also referred to as a standing humanitarian exception or...
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Tomorrow (9 December), following the briefing and closed consultations on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Security Council members will discuss the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) under “any other business”, a standing...
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Tomorrow morning (9 December), the Security Council will convene for a briefing, followed by closed consultations, on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including the work of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) and the...
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Tomorrow (6 December), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on the situation in Ukraine. The meeting, which was requested by France and Mexico, will focus on the humanitarian situation and the effects of the war on children. Under-Secretary-General...
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On Monday (5 December), the Security Council will convene for a briefing on the UN Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes committed by ISIL/Da’esh (UNITAD). Special Adviser and Head of UNITAD Christian Ritscher is expected to brief. UNITAD was...
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India is the president of the Security Council in December. Council members adopted the provisional programme of work for the month earlier today (1 December). India has chosen to convene two signature events during its presidency. The first will be...