What's In Blue: the Middle East
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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...
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This afternoon (15 January), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on the recent protests in Iran. The meeting, which will be held under the agenda item “The situation in the Middle East”, was requested by the US....
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Tomorrow morning (14 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 until 15 July the monthly reporting requirement for the Secretary-General...
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Tomorrow morning (23 December), the Security Council is scheduled to hold a briefing under the “Non-Proliferation” agenda item to discuss the implementation of resolution 2231 of 20 July 2015, which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran’s nuclear programme. The...
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Tomorrow morning (18 December), the Security Council will hold its monthly open briefing and closed consultations on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria. Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo and Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya...
