What's In Blue: Security Council Visiting Missions
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Security Council Report (SCR) accompanied Council members on their visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which took place from 9 to 12 March and was co-led by France and Gabon. SCR covered the visiting mission in...
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Yesterday (12 March), on the last day of the Council’s four-day visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), members received first-hand accounts of the deleterious effects on civilians of the ongoing conflict in the country. They held...
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This morning (11 March), Council members left Kinshasa for Goma, the capital of North Kivu, the most conflict-affected province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They held meetings with provincial authorities, regional actors based in...
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Council members arrived yesterday evening (9 March) in Kinshasa for their visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Upon arrival at the airport, the Council delegation interacted briefly with members of the press, and the mission’s co-leads—Ambassador Nicolas...
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Security Council members leave this evening (8 March) for a visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). France and Gabon are co-leading the mission, which will take place from tomorrow (9 March) to Sunday (12 March). The...
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Addis Ababa –Yesterday (22 October) Security Council members held their 13th joint annual consultative meeting with the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC). The day before (21 October), Council members held informal consultations with the PSC, which have been organised...
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On Saturday (13 July), the Security Council delegation travelled to Cauca, Colombia’s department with the highest number of killings of former combatants and social leaders. The municipality of Caldono in the Cauca Department hosts one of the 24 Territorial Areas for...
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Friday (12 July) was packed with back-to-back meetings with interlocutors involved, in different ways, in the implementation of the peace agreement signed in 2016 between the government of Colombia and the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People’s Army (FARC-EP). The...
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Council members arrived in Ouagadoudou yesterday morning (24 March) for the final day of their visiting mission, with the objective of assessing the situation in Burkina Faso and discussing the work of the G5 Sahel, whose rotating presidency Burkina Faso...
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For the last one and a half days, Council members have held several meetings in Bamako focusing on the situation in Mali, the role of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), and the operationalisation of the...
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Security Council members visited Guinea-Bissau from 15 to 16 February, following the mission’s first stop in Côte d’Ivoire. The Guinea-Bissau leg was organised as a conflict prevention initiative, just weeks before legislative elections scheduled for 10 March—which were delayed twice...
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Security Council members arrived in Abidjan on Thursday evening (14 February). The next morning (15 February), they held meetings with Foreign Minister Marcel Amon-Tanoh at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan at the presidential...
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Security Council members leave this evening (13 February) for Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea-Bissau. Equatorial Guinea, this month’s Council president, and Côte d’Ivoire are co-leading the mission, planned for 14 to 16 February. The highlight of the Ivorian leg will be...
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Yesterday (7 October) the Security Council completed its visiting mission to Kinshasa. The final day consisted of a series of meetings with MONUSCO, as well as one meeting with female political candidates for the upcoming presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections....
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Today (Saturday, 6 October) was an extremely busy day for Council members, with a series of meetings with senior government officials, opposition and pro-government political parties, and civil society organizations. Meetings with Government Officials The back-to-back meetings culminated at the...
