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What's In Blue: UNDOF

  • 3 June 2020

    Open VTC with the Heads of Military Components

    Tomorrow (4 June) Security Council members will hold an open videoconference (VTC) with force commanders from UN peacekeeping operations. Force commanders from three missions—the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and... Tags: Insights on Peacekeeping, MINUSMA, UNDOF, UNMISS

  • 17 October 2014

    Golan Heights Consultations: Options for UNDOF’s Mandate

    On Monday (20 October), Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmond Mulet will brief Council members in consultations on the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). Monday’s briefing is a follow-up to a 19 September presidential statement that requested the Department of... Tags: Golan Heights (Israel/Syria), Insights on the Middle East, UNDOF

  • 16 September 2014

    Consultations on UN Disengagement Observation Force Following Release of Peacekeepers

    Council members are expecting a briefing in consultations tomorrow (17 September) from Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmund Mulet on the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). While consultations had been scheduled to discuss the latest UNDOF report (S/2014/665), tomorrow’s meeting... Tags: Insights, Insights on the Middle East, UNDOF

  • 17 December 2013

    Renewal of the UN Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights

    Tomorrow (18 December), the Security Council is scheduled to adopt a resolution renewing the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan Heights for six months. Russia and the US jointly authored the draft resolution which was circulated on Thursday... Tags: Insights, Insights on the Middle East, UNDOF

  • 12 March 2013

    A Meeting between the Members of the EU and the Security Council

    Tomorrow, 13 March, the twenty-seven ambassadors of the EU Political and Security Committee (PSC) are meeting with the fifteen ambassadors of the UN Security Council.* This informal event, which is not on the official programme of work of the Council,... Tags: Insights, Insights on Africa, Mali, Somalia, Syria, UNDOF

  • 26 June 2012

    Adoption of Golan Heights Resolution

    Tomorrow morning (27 June) the Council will adopt a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) for six months. (UNDOF was established in May 1974 to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Syria.) The draft... Tags: Golan Heights (Israel/Syria), Insights on the Middle East, UNDOF

  • 20 December 2011

    Resolution on UN Force in Golan Heights

    Tomorrow morning (21 December) the Council seems set to renew the mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) for six months, which was established in May 1974 to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Syria. Later today, Assistant Secretary-General... Tags: Insights, Insights on the Middle East, Syria, UNDOF

  • 28 June 2011

    Adoption of the UNDOF resolution

    Tomorrow the Council is expected to adopt a resolution renewing UNDOF’s mandate, which expires on 30 June. The Council was scheduled to adopt it today (28 June) but differences over whether and how to address recent events seem to be... Tags: Insights, Insights on the Middle East, Syria, UNDOF

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