What's In Blue: January 2025
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Tomorrow morning (31 January), Security Council members will convene for closed consultations on Sudan, at the request of Denmark and the UK (the penholder on the file). Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace...
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Tomorrow morning (31 January), the Security Council is scheduled to vote on a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) for another year, until 31 January 2026. The negotiations on the draft resolution appear to have...
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This afternoon (30 January), Security Council members will convene for closed consultations on Myanmar. Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar Julie Bishop and Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Geneva and Director of...
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Tomorrow morning (30 January), Security Council members will convene for closed consultations on Syria. Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen is expected to brief via videoconference (VTC) from Damascus. Algeria, January’s Council president, called for the meeting in its...
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This afternoon (28 January), the Security Council will meet for its second urgent meeting this week on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Algeria, January’s Council president, convened the meeting after the DRC’s Minister of Foreign...
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Tomorrow morning (28 January), the Security Council is expected to hold an open briefing on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question” (MEPQ). Algeria requested the meeting to discuss the situation of the UN Relief and Works...
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This afternoon (27 January), the Security Council will convene to receive the semi-annual briefing of International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Asad Ahmad Khan on the ICC’s Darfur-related work. (For background on the ICC’s work on Darfur and the situation...
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Tomorrow morning (26 January), the Security Council will convene for a briefing on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). France, the penholder on DRC, requested the meeting following a 21 January letter (S/2025/7) from DRC’s Minister...
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This afternoon (24 January), the Security Council adopted a presidential statement on counter-terrorism. The presidential statement was proposed by Algeria in connection with its signature event on counter-terrorism in Africa, which began on 21 January, and the vote took place...
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This afternoon, the Security Council is scheduled to vote on a draft resolution setting a date for the election to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of the former President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Judge Nawaf...
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Tomorrow (24 January), Russia will convene an Arria-formula meeting on Ukraine titled “Beyond the Battlefield: Atrocities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Against Civilians”. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia (Russia) is expected to make opening remarks. The anticipated briefers, who will participate...
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Tomorrow (23 January) the Security Council is expected to hold a briefing on “Cooperation between the Security Council and the League of Arab States”. The briefers will be: Mohamed Khaled Khiari, the Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the...
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Tomorrow morning (22 January), the Security Council will hold a briefing on Colombia. The expected briefers are Special Representative and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia Carlos Ruiz Massieu and a civil society representative who will focus on...
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Tomorrow afternoon (22 January), the Security Council will hold an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on Haiti. Special Representative and Head of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) María Isabel Salvador is expected to brief on recent developments in...
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Tomorrow (21 January), the Security Council will hold an open debate on counter-terrorism in Africa under the agenda item “Maintenance of international peace and security”. Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Attaf will chair the meeting, which is one of...
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On Monday (20 January), the Security Council will hold its quarterly open debate on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question” (MEPQ). Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Attaf will chair the meeting. UN Secretary-General António Guterres...
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This afternoon (17 January), the Security Council will hold a briefing on the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). Russia requested the meeting to address the latest developments in the respective areas of...
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Tomorrow morning (17 January), Security Council members are expected to hold closed consultations on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question” (MEPQ). Algeria requested the meeting to discuss the situation of the UN Relief and Works Agency...
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This afternoon (16 January), the Security Council is set to adopt a draft presidential statement on Lebanon, which was authored by France (the penholder on the file). The agreed text welcomes the recent election of President of the Republic of...
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This afternoon (16 January), the Security Council will hold a briefing on Ukraine. Slovenia and the US—the co-penholders on political issues in Ukraine—requested the meeting to receive a general update on developments. Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo is...
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This afternoon (16 January), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the Panel of Experts (PoE) of the 1970 Libya Sanctions Committee and the authorisation of measures contained in resolution 2146 of 19 March 2014 related...
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This afternoon (15 January), 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 by...
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This afternoon (15 January), Security Council members will hold closed consultations on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the DRC and Head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic...
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Tomorrow morning (15 January), the Security Council will hold its monthly open briefing and closed consultations on Yemen. UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg and Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya will brief in the open chamber. Head of...
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This afternoon (14 January), the US will convene an Arria-formula meeting on the implications of the proliferation and misuse of commercial spyware for the maintenance of international peace and security. The meeting is being co-sponsored by Council members France, the...
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Tomorrow afternoon (13 January), there will be an Arria-formula meeting titled “Violations of international humanitarian law against Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian detainees”. The meeting is being organised by the UK, with co-sponsorship from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and...
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On Monday morning (13 January), Security Council members are expected to hold closed consultations on Lebanon. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix are the anticipated briefers. France, the penholder on Lebanon, requested the...
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Tomorrow morning (8 January), 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, respectively....
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On Monday morning (6 January), the Security Council will hold a briefing on food insecurity in Sudan under the “Protection of civilians in armed conflict” agenda item. The expected briefers are Director of the Operations and Advocacy Division at the...
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Algeria is the president of the Security Council in January. Council members adopted the provisional programme of work for the month earlier today (2 January). Algeria has chosen to organise three signature events during its presidency. The first one is...
