What's In Blue: the Middle East
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Tomorrow morning (8 May), the Security Council’s five European members—Denmark, France, Greece, Latvia, and the UK—will convene an Arria-formula meeting on the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Three civil society representatives are expected to brief: a Palestinian, an Israeli,...
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Tomorrow (28 April), the Security Council will hold its quarterly open debate on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. Bahrain—the Council’s president in April—is convening the meeting as a high-level signature event, which its Minister of...
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On Wednesday afternoon (22 April), the Security Council will hold a briefing on Syria. Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Claudio Cordone, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher, and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Vanessa Frazier are...
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Tomorrow morning (14 April), the Security Council will hold a briefing on Yemen. UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg and Director of the Crisis Response Division at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Edem Wosornu are...
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Tomorrow morning (7 April) at 11 am EST, the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution which strongly encourages states interested in the use of commercial maritime routes in the Strait of Hormuz to coordinate efforts of...
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Tomorrow afternoon (24 March), the Security Council will hold an open briefing on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question” (MEPQ). At the time of writing, two briefers were expected. The first is Deputy Special Coordinator and...
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Tomorrow morning (18 March), the Security Council will hold an open briefing on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria. Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Claudio Cordone and Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya are expected to brief. The...
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Tomorrow morning (12 March), the Security Council is expected to hold an open briefing on the work of the 1737 Sanctions Committee concerning Iran. The US—the Council president in March—intends to convene the meeting under the “Non-Proliferation” agenda item. No briefer is expected....
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This afternoon (11 March), the Security Council is expected to vote on two draft resolutions regarding the current crisis in the Middle East. One was presented by Bahrain on behalf of the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)—which...
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Tomorrow morning (11 March), the Security Council is expected to hold a briefing under the agenda item “The situation in the Middle East” focused on the situation in Lebanon. The expected briefers are Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary...
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Today (28 February) at 4 pm EST, the Security Council will convene for an emergency briefing under the agenda item “The situation in the Middle East” to discuss the US-Israeli attacks on Iran earlier today and the retaliatory strikes by...
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Tomorrow afternoon (18 February), the Security Council will hold its regular monthly open briefing on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question” (MEPQ). The UK—the Council’s president in February—has invited Council members to participate at the ministerial level, and...
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Tomorrow morning (13 January), the Security Council will hold its monthly open briefing and closed consultations on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria. Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Claudio Cordone and Director of the Humanitarian Financing and Resource Mobilization...
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Tomorrow (28 January), the Security Council will hold its quarterly open debate on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. The anticipated briefer is Ramiz Alakbarov, the Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident Coordinator at the Office of...
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On Tuesday afternoon (27 January), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution extending the UN Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) for a final two-month period, until 31 March. The UK, the penholder on Yemen, authored...
