Insights on the work of the UN Security Council
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Tomorrow afternoon (11 January), the Security Council will hold an open briefing on Colombia. Special Representative and head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia Carlos Ruiz Massieu will brief on recent developments and the Secretary-General’s latest 90-day report on...
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Today (10 January), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution on recent Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, which was authored by Japan and the US.* The co-penholders formally circulated an initial draft of the resolution...
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Tomorrow afternoon (10 January), Security Council members will hold closed consultations on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. Malta requested the meeting to discuss the implementation of resolution 2712 of 15 November 2023, which called for...
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Tomorrow morning (10 January), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on the situation in Ukraine. Ecuador and France, the co-penholders on humanitarian issues in Ukraine, requested the meeting. Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo and...
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Tomorrow (3 January), the Security Council is expected to hold a briefing, followed by closed consultations, on the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea under the “Maintenance of international peace and security” agenda item. Ecuador, France, Guyana, Japan, Malta, the...
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France is the president of the Security Council in January. While France will not be pursuing a signature event in January, the quarterly open debate on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question” will be elevated to...
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Tomorrow morning (29 December), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution on the Afghanistan independent assessment, which was requested by resolution 2679 of 16 March. The draft text was proposed by Japan and the United Arab...
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Tomorrow morning (27 December), Russia will convene an Arria-formula meeting titled “10 Years of Euromaidan in Ukraine: A Step Into Abyss”. Briefings are expected from Mikhail Khazin, a Russian economist and commentator; Maxim Grigoriev, head of the non-governmental organisation, the...
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This afternoon (21 December), the Security Council is scheduled to vote on a draft resolution on the financing of African Union (AU)-led peace support operations (AUPSOs), which was authored by the Council’s three African members (Gabon, Ghana, and Mozambique, also...
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Today (21 December), Security Council members are discussing the security and humanitarian situations in Sudan under “any other business”, at the request of the UK (the penholder on the file). OCHA’s Director of the Humanitarian Financing and Resource Mobilization Division Lisa Doughten...
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Tomorrow morning (21 December), the Security Council will hold a briefing on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria. Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen and OCHA’s Director of the Humanitarian Financing and Resource Mobilization Division Lisa Doughten are expected...
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Today (22 December), the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution authored by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on scaling up and monitoring humanitarian aid going into Gaza. The vote was postponed several times since Monday (18...
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This afternoon (20 December), Brazil will convene a Security Council Arria-formula meeting titled “Mind the gap: enhancing the dialogue and cooperation between the Security Council and the Peacebuilding Commission”. Briefings are expected from Ambassador Ivan Šimonović (Croatia), the chair of...
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Tomorrow morning (20 December), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on Afghanistan. Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Roza Otunbayeva, Head and Representative of OCHA in Geneva and...
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This afternoon (19 December), Albania and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will convene an Arria-formula meeting titled “Artificial intelligence: its impact on hate speech, disinformation and misinformation”. The meeting will be chaired by Omran Sharaf, the UAE’s Assistant Minister of...