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Cooperation between the UN Security Council and the League of Arab States: Briefing
Tomorrow (23 January) the Security Council is expected to hold a briefing on “Cooperation between the Security Council and the League of Arab States”. The briefers will be: Mohamed Khaled Khiari, the Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States (LAS). Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Attaf is expected to chair the meeting. Council members have been negotiating a draft presidential statement, but at time of writing, it was unclear if agreement would be reached by the time of the meeting.
In recent years, Arab Council members have held meetings on UN-LAS cooperation during their presidencies, including Kuwait in June 2019, Tunisia in January 2021, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in March 2022 and June 2023. The Council has adopted presidential statements in connection with three of these meetings: S/PRST/2019/5, S/PRST/2021/2, and S/PRST/2022/1. These statements have focused on the importance of enhancing cooperation between the UN and the LAS. The two most recent ones have reiterated the Council’s intention to promote strengthened cooperation between the UN and the LAS on early warning, prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, sustaining peace, addressing the root causes of conflicts, and countering terrorism. Since 2021, Council members have also held three high-level informal interactive dialogues (IIDs), with the representatives of the Arab Summit Troika and the LAS Secretary-General during the high-level week in September.
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