What's In Blue: the Middle East
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On Monday morning (16 January), the Security Council will hold an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on Yemen. Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths are expected to brief. Major General Michael Beary,...
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Tomorrow morning (9 January), the Security Council is scheduled to vote on a draft resolution extending the authorisation for the Syria cross-border aid mechanism for an additional six months, until 10 July. (The authorisation allows the delivery of humanitarian assistance...
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Tomorrow afternoon (5 January), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. The meeting was requested yesterday (3 January) by China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), joined...
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Tomorrow morning (21 December), Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths are expected to provide the monthly briefings on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria, respectively. Consultations are scheduled to follow. The...
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Tomorrow afternoon (19 December), the Security Council will convene for its biannual briefing on the implementation of resolution 2231 of 20 July 2015, which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear programme (JCPOA). Under-Secretary-General for Political and...
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On Monday morning (19 December), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland is the anticipated briefer. Closed...
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On Monday (5 December), the Security Council will convene for a briefing on the UN Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes committed by ISIL/Da’esh (UNITAD). Special Adviser and Head of UNITAD Christian Ritscher is expected to brief. UNITAD was...
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Tomorrow morning (28 November), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on: “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland is the...
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This afternoon (22 November), following the briefing and closed consultations on Yemen, Security Council members will discuss recent Iranian strikes in Iraq under “any other business”. The meeting was requested by France, the UK, and the US. No briefer is...
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Tomorrow afternoon (22 November), the Security Council will hold its monthly briefing, followed by closed consultations, on Yemen. Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg and OCHA Director of Operations and Advocacy Reena Ghelani are expected to brief. Major General Michael Beary,...
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This afternoon (21 November), Security Council members are expected to hold an informal interactive dialogue (IID) on Syria. (IIDs are informal closed meetings which allow for the participation of non-Council members. There are no meeting records of IIDs and they are...
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Tomorrow (2 November) at 1:15 pm EST, Albania and the US will convene an Arria-formula meeting on the ongoing protests in Iran. The expected briefers are Javaid Rehman, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic...
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Tomorrow morning (28 October), the Security Council will hold its quarterly open debate on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland will brief. Representatives of Israel and...
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This afternoon (26 October), following the private meeting on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing under the agenda item “maintenance of international peace and security”. The meeting was requested by Russia...
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This morning (25 October), the Security Council will hold a briefing on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria, which will feature briefings from Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen and OCHA Director of Operations and Advocacy Reena Ghelani,...
