What's In Blue: Africa
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Council members are in the process of negotiating a renewal of the mandate of the UN Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA). It seems likely that the resolution will be passed in the coming days, as the current mandate of...
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The Council is scheduled to adopt several resolutions tomorrow (Wednesday, 21 December), including on the mandate renewal of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA). (On 14 December, Margaret Vogt—head of BINUCA—briefed the Council following the...
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On Tuesday morning (20 December), the Council is scheduled to adopt a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Office in Burundi (BNUB). A draft resolution was finalised and put in blue on Friday, 16 December. The mandate is set...
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The Council will hold consultations on the post-election situation in the DRC this afternoon (Thursday, 15 December) at the request of France. The Council is likely to be briefed by Roger Meece, head of the UN stabilisation mission in the...
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This afternoon, the Council will be briefed both by Margaret Vogt, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and head of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in CAR (BINUCA) and Ambassador Jan Grauls of Belgium, the chair of the Peacebuilding Commission’s CAR country...
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Tomorrow morning (Tuesday, 13 December) the Secretary-General is scheduled to brief the Council on Somalia. Council members seem keen to hear about the Secretary-General’s historic 9 December visit to Mogadishu with the President of the UN General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz...
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The Council will receive a briefing and hold consultations tomorrow morning (Thursday, 8 December) on the Secretary-General’s 27 November report on the situation in Abyei (S/2011/741). Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, will likely brief. Representatives of Sudan and South...
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Tomorrow (Thursday, 8 December), the Secretary-General’s Special Representative to the UN mission in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI), Albert Gerard Koenders, is expected to brief Council members on preparations for legislative elections to be held in Côte d’Ivoire on 11 December. (There...
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This afternoon (December 2), the Council is expected to extend the mandate of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) for three months. Although due to expire on 15 December, Council members were keen to renew the mandate ahead of...
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Following consultations among Council members yesterday (Wednesday, 30 November), first among experts and then at permanent representative level, it appears that Gabon circulated a revised draft resolution on Eritrea last night. Gabon had called for a vote yesterday after having...
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Council members are expecting a briefing by video-conference tomorrow (2 December) by Roger Meese, the head of the UN’s mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) on Monday’s elections. Council members are likely to be interested in Meese’s assessment of the preliminary...
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It appears that Gabon circulated a revised draft resolution on Eritrea this afternoon, announcing its intention of putting it to a vote tomorrow (Wednesday, 30 November). While recent negotiations seem to have succeeded in narrowing differences between Council members, most...
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The Council seems set to adopt a resolution on Tuesday (29 November) renewing the sanctions regime in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the mandate of the Group of Experts for another year. (On Friday, France circulated a...
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Ian Martin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), is scheduled to brief the Council on Libya this afternoon (Monday, 28 November). Following the briefing, which seems likely to focus on...
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Council members are currently negotiating a presidential statement on Sudan circulated by the US last Friday. Apparently the impetus for the draft presidential statement was the bombings in Upper Nile and Unity states which had taken place earlier in the...
