What's In Blue: Syria
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Council members will be briefed tomorrow morning (8 May) on the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) in closed consultations by UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan (via video-link) and Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Hervé Ladsous. (Resolution 2043, which authorised...
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Council members will be briefed tomorrow afternoon (24 April) on the recently authorised UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) in closed consultations by UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan (via video-link) and Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Hervé Ladsous. It...
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It seems that the Council will meet this morning (21 April) at 11 a.m. for a possible vote on a resolution to authorise a UN mission in Syria. Council members met in consultations at permanent representative level late yesterday to...
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Tomorrow morning (19 April) Council members will be briefed on Syria in informal consultations by Jean-Marie Guéhenno, deputy to UN-Arab League Special Envoy Kofi Annan, and Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Edmond Mulet. It is likely that Annan may brief...
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Council members are continuing this afternoon (13 April), at permanent representative level, to try to come to an agreement on a draft resolution on Syria authorising the deployment of an advance team of 30 unarmed military observers to Syria to...
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The Council is working towards adopting a resolution authorising the deployment of an advance team of unarmed military observers to Syria to supervise the cessation of violence by all parties. (If the resolution is adopted tomorrow, such an advance monitoring...
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Tomorrow morning (12 April) Council members are scheduled to hear from the Joint UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan, on progress made on the cessation of violence by both the Syrian government and the opposition elements. It appears...
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Following a briefing by Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan during consultations on Monday (2 April), Council members have been working on a draft presidential statement on Syria and may meet either later today (4 April) or tomorrow morning to adopt...
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On Monday (2 April) the UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan, will brief Council members in consultations by videoconference on his mediation efforts. Council members are likely to be interested in Annan’s recent visits to Moscow and Beijing...
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Following negotiations at both expert level and permanent representative level today (20 March), revised drafts of the presidential statement supporting Joint Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan and the press statement on the recent terrorist attacks in Syria have gone...
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It appears that Council members today (19 March) received two documents on Syria. The first was a draft presidential statement circulated by France supporting Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan’s mediation efforts, and the second was a Russian draft press statement...
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Tomorrow (16 March) the UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan, is expected to brief Council members in consultations via video-conference on his recent mediation efforts. (On 13 March, after the head of the Office for the Coordination of...
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Tomorrow morning (13 March) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, will brief Council members via video-teleconference on both Syria and the Sahel. She was in Syria from 7 to 9 March and in Niger from 16 to 18 February with...
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The P5 and Morocco (as the Council’s Arab Group voice) have been discussing a draft resolution on Syria. It appears that there is still no agreement on a draft text. It now seems unlikely that significant negotiations will take place...
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Tomorrow morning (6 March) Council members will receive their monthly briefing on emerging issues by the head of the Department of Political Affairs, B. Lynn Pascoe. It seems Pascoe is likely to focus on the situation in Syria, Camp Ashraf...
