Syria

  • March 2024

    Syria

    Monthly Forecast

    The Council expects to hold two meetings this month on Syria: one on the political and humanitarian issues and another on the chemical weapons track.

  • 26 February 2024

    Syria: Briefing and Consultations

    What's in Blue

    Tomorrow morning (27 February), UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen (via videoconference) and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths are expected to brief the Council on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria, respectively. Closed consultations are scheduled...

  • This afternoon (5 February), the Security Council will hold a briefing on recent US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria under the “threats to international peace and security” agenda item. The meeting was requested by Russia. Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding...

  • February 2024

    Syria

    Monthly Forecast

    In February, the Security Council is expected to hold a briefing, followed by closed consultations, on the political process and the humanitarian situation in Syria.  

  • January 2024

    Syria

    Monthly Forecast

    In January 2024, the Security Council is expected to hold a meeting on the political process and the humanitarian situation in Syria.  

  • 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...

  • December 2023

    Syria

    Monthly Forecast

    In December, the Security Council is expected to hold a meeting on the political process and the humanitarian situation in Syria.

  • November 2023

    Syria

    Monthly Forecast

    In November, the Security Council is expected to hold a meeting on the political process and the humanitarian situation in Syria.

  • October 2023

    Syria

    Monthly Forecast

    In October, the Security Council is expected to hold meetings on the political process and on the humanitarian situation in Syria.  

  • This afternoon (27 September), the Security Council will hold a briefing on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria. Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen and Director of OCHA’s Operations and Advocacy Division Edem Wosornu are expected to brief...

  • September 2023

    Syria

    Monthly Forecast

    In September, the Security Council is expected to hold meetings on the political process, the humanitarian situation, and the use of chemical weapons in Syria.    

  • On Monday afternoon (21 August), the Security Council will convene for a private meeting, followed by closed consultations, to discuss the humanitarian situation in Syria. Brazil and Switzerland, the co-penholders on the Syria humanitarian file, requested the meeting. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian...

  • In July, the Council failed to adopt a resolution reauthorising the Syria cross-border aid mechanism. As a result, a nine-year old mechanism, which had allowed the delivery of humanitarian assistance into non-government-controlled parts of Syria without requiring the consent of the Syrian government, was shut down. The draft put forward by the co-penholders (Switzerland and Brazil), with a nine-month extension of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, was vetoed by Russia.

  • August 2023

    Syria

    Monthly Forecast

    In August, the Security Council is expected to hold meetings on the political process, the humanitarian situation, and the use of chemical weapons in Syria.  

  • Tomorrow morning (17 July), the Security Council will convene for a private meeting followed by closed consultations to discuss the humanitarian situation in Syria. Brazil and Switzerland, the co-penholders on the Syria humanitarian file, requested the closed consultations; afterwards, Russia...