What's In Blue: December 2024
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Tomorrow morning (30 December), the Security Council will hold an open briefing under the “Threats to international peace and security” agenda item. The meeting was scheduled after Israel requested an urgent Security Council meeting in a 24 December letter to...
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Tomorrow morning (27 December), the Security Council is expected to convene a meeting to vote on a draft resolution, authored by the UK (the penholder on Somalia), regarding the successor mission to the African Union (AU) Transition Mission in Somalia...
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Tomorrow morning (27 December), Security Council members will convene for closed consultations on Syria. Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen is expected to brief. France and Slovenia requested the meeting to keep the Council informed about developments in the country....
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This afternoon (20 December), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing under the “Threats to international peace and security” agenda item. Russia requested the meeting to discuss the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine. High Representative for Disarmament...
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This morning (20 December), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) for one year, until 20 December 2025. France and Sierra...
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Tomorrow morning (20 December), the Security Council is expected to hold a briefing, followed by consultations, on West Africa and the Sahel. Special Representative and Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) Leonardo Santos Simão...
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Tomorrow morning (20 December), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution highlighting the need to facilitate adequate and sustainable child protection capacities in UN peace operations—that is, peacekeeping operations and special political missions—including in the context...
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Tomorrow morning (19 December), the Security Council will convene for a briefing on artificial intelligence (AI) under the “Maintenance of international peace and security” agenda item. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will chair the meeting, which is one of...
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This afternoon (18 December), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing under the agenda item “Non-proliferation/Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)”. The meeting was requested by France, Japan, Malta, the Republic of Korea (ROK), Slovenia, the UK, and...
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Tomorrow morning (18 December), the Security Council will hold an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question” (MEPQ). Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Mohamed Khaled...
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Tomorrow morning (17 December), the Security Council will hold a briefing on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria. Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher will brief on political and humanitarian developments,...
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Tomorrow morning (13 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, which was last renewed by resolution 2716 of 14 December 2023. The...
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Tomorrow morning (13 December), the Security Council is expected to hold a meeting under the agenda item “Peace and security in Africa” to vote on a draft resolution concerning the 2713 Al-Shabaab sanctions regime. The draft text, which was authored...
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Tomorrow morning (12 December), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on Afghanistan. The expected briefers are Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Roza Otunbayeva, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian...
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Tomorrow (12 December), Security Council members will hold an Arria-formula meeting on mine action at the initiative of Japan. The expected briefers are Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix and the Permanent Representative of Cambodia to the UN, Ambassador Keo...
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Tomorrow morning (11 December), the Security Council will hold its monthly open briefing and closed consultations on Yemen. UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg will brief. The new Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Thomas Fletcher, who was appointed on 9 October,...
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This afternoon (9 December), Security Council members will convene for closed consultations on Syria. Russia requested the meeting to address the latest developments in Syria and their implications for the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). Following this, the UK proposed...
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Tomorrow morning (9 December), the Security Council will convene for an open 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 Democratic...
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Tomorrow morning (6 December), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution extending the application of resolution 2664—which established a humanitarian carve-out to the asset freeze measures imposed by UN sanctions regimes—to the 1267/1989/2253 Islamic State in Iraq and the...
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Tomorrow afternoon (6 December), Guyana and Slovenia will convene an Arria-formula meeting to consider the implementation of resolution 2475 on the protection of persons with disabilities in armed conflict, which was adopted on 20 June 2019. Marking the resolution’s five-year...
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Tomorrow morning (4 December), the Security Council will hold a briefing on Ukraine. The US, December’s Council president, is convening the meeting to discuss the effects of the war on children in Ukraine. Executive Director of UNICEF Catherine Russell is...
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Tomorrow afternoon (4 December), Council members are expected to receive a briefing in closed consultations on Lebanon. France, the penholder on the file, and the US requested the consultations following the announcement on 26 November of a cessation of hostilities...
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The US is the president of the Security Council in December. Council members were unable to reach agreement on the provisional programme of work for the month, apparently due to Russia’s objection to the inclusion of Ukraine on the programme. Instead, the...
