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Latest post: Wed 17 Apr 2024Insights on the work of the UN Security Council
The Middle East, including the Palestinian Question: Ministerial-level Open Debate and Possible Vote on the Palestinian Application for UN Membership
Tomorrow (18 April), the Security Council will hold its quarterly open debate on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. Maltese Foreign Minister Ian Borg will chair the meeting, which is one of the signature events of Malta’s April presidency. Secretary-General António Guterres is expected to brief.
A vote on a draft resolution authored by Algeria recommending the admission of the State of Palestine to UN membership was initially expected to take place tomorrow afternoon but was apparently later scheduled for Friday (19 April). At the time of writing, the final timing of the vote was still being debated and remained unconfirmed. While no admission of a new member has been vetoed since 1976, it seems unlikely that the resolution will be adopted.
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Tomorrow afternoon (17 April), the Security Council is expected to hold an open briefing on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the...
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Tomorrow morning (17 April), the Security Council will hold a ministerial-level debate on “The role of young persons in addressing security challenges in the Mediterranean” under the “Maintenance of international peace and security” agenda item. Ian Borg, Malta’s Minister for...
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Tomorrow morning (16 April), the Security Council will hold an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on the situation in Libya. Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Abdoulaye Bathily will brief on the latest political,...
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This afternoon (14 April) at 4 pm EST, the Security Council will convene for an emergency meeting on the airborne attack that Iran launched against Israel yesterday (13 April). Israel requested the meeting, which will be held under the agenda...
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On Monday afternoon (15 April), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing under the “Threats to international peace and security” agenda item. Slovenia and the US—the co-penholders on political issues in Ukraine—supported by France, requested the meeting, which...
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On Monday morning (15 April), the Security Council will hold an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, on Yemen. UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg and OCHA Director of Operations and Advocacy Edem Wosornu are expected to brief. The...
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Tomorrow morning (12 April), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing under the “Threats to international peace and security” agenda item. Russia requested the meeting to discuss the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine. Chief of the Conventional Arms Branch...
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This afternoon (9 April), the Security Council will convene for a private meeting under the “Threats to international peace and security” agenda item to discuss recent developments regarding a territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo region in...
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Tomorrow morning (9 April), the Security Council will hold an open briefing, followed by closed consultations, 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...
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Tomorrow (8 April), Security Council members will hold closed consultations, followed by an open meeting, to discuss the Palestinian request, conveyed in a 2 April letter to the Secretary-General, for renewed consideration of its 23 September 2011 application for UN...
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Tomorrow morning (4 April), the Security Council is expected to convene for an open briefing on Myanmar. The anticipated briefers are Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Mohamed Khaled Khiari and OCHA’s Director of the Financing...
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Tomorrow afternoon (4 April), Security Council members will hold an Arria-formula meeting titled “Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape and its Implications for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security”. The meeting is being organised by the Republic of Korea (ROK) and...
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Tomorrow morning (3 April) at 11 am EST, the Security Council will hold a briefing on children and armed conflict that will focus on “addressing the consequences of the denial of humanitarian access for children”. The expected briefers are Special...
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Malta is the president of the Security Council in April. Council members adopted the provisional programme of work for the month earlier today (1 April). As one of the signature events of its presidency, Malta will organise a debate on...
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This afternoon (28 March), the Security Council may convene for a briefing under the “Maintenance of international peace and security” agenda item. Russia requested the meeting to mark the 25th anniversary of the aerial bombing campaign carried out by the...
