What's In Blue: the Middle East
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Tomorrow (25 August), the Security Council is scheduled to hold a briefing on the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). The Special Representative and head of UNAMI, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, is expected to brief on recent developments in Iraq and on...
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Tomorrow (24 August), the Security Council will hold an in-person briefing, followed by consultations, on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria. Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths are expected to brief...
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On Monday (23 August), the Security Council will hold its monthly briefing on Yemen, followed by consultations. Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Khaled Khiari, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths, and UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta...
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Tomorrow (6 August) morning, following the open briefing and closed consultations on Afghanistan, Security Council members will discuss a 29 July attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman under “any other business”. The meeting was requested by...
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Tomorrow (28 July), the Security Council will hold its quarterly open debate on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question”. Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Lynn Hastings will brief. Yudith Oppenheimer, Executive Director...
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On Monday (19 July), Council members will convene in person for closed consultations on the political situation in Syria. Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen is scheduled to brief the Council via videoconference (VTC). Monday’s consultations will be the...
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Tomorrow (14 July), the Security Council is scheduled to vote on a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) for another year, until 15 July 2022. Following the vote, Council members will...
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Tomorrow (9 July), the Security Council is scheduled to vote on renewing the mandate of the cross-border humanitarian aid delivery mechanism to Syria authorised under resolution 2533 of 11 July 2020. At the time of writing, it appears that Council members will...
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On Tuesday (6 July), Council members will hold closed consultations on the humanitarian situation in Syria. Ramesh Rajasingham, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator will brief. The meeting is likely to be the last meeting on the...
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Tomorrow (30 June), the Security Council will convene in person for its semi-annual briefing on the implementation of resolution 2231, which in 2015 endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear programme (JCPOA). Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding...
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Tomorrow (24 June), the Security Council will hold its monthly meeting on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question”. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland is expected to brief. Consultations are scheduled to...
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Tomorrow (23 June), the Security Council will hold its monthly meeting on the humanitarian situation in Syria. Secretary-General António Guterres is expected to brief via videoconference (VTC). Ramesh Rajasingham, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator will also...
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Tomorrow (15 June), the Security Council will hold its monthly briefing, followed by closed consultations, on Yemen. Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock are expected to brief. (Griffiths and Lowcock are likely to...
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Tomorrow (3 June) afternoon, the Security Council will convene in person for a briefing, followed by closed consultations, on Yemen. The meeting will focus on the FSO Safer—the oil tanker moored off the coast of Hodeidah governorate in the Red...
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Tomorrow (3 June), Security Council members will hold an in-person briefing on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, with Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Director-General Fernando Arias expected to brief via videoconference (VTC) and High Representative...