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At 10 a.m., the Security Council will hold an open debate on its working methods. The most recent version of the comprehensive compendium of its working methods, S/2024/507, will guide the debate. Shamala Kandiah Thompson, the Executive Director of Security Council Report, is expected to brief.

At 10 a.m., the Security Council will hear a briefing on Libya. Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Hanna Serwaa Tetteh is expected to brief on recent political, security and humanitarian developments in the country and the Secretary-General’s latest report on UNSMIL.

At 10 a.m., the Security Council will hold a meeting on Yemen. UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg, an official from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and a civil society representative are expected to brief on the latest developments in the country.

At 10 a.m., the Security Council will hold a meeting on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, its second in two weeks amid escalating violence in the West Bank affecting Palestinians and Israelis.

At 10 a.m., the Security Council will hear a briefing on South Sudan. Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) Anita Kiki Gbehois is expected to brief.

The Security Council will convene for a briefing on the Secretary-General’s latest biannual strategic-level report, S/2026/638, on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) to international peace and security. Oguljeren Niyazberdiyeva, Chief of the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism at the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), and Carmen G. Cantor, the Deputy Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), are expected to brief.

The Security Council will vote on a draft resolution to extend the 2745 sanctions regime related to the Central African Republic, which expires at the end of the month, and renew the mandate of the Panel of Experts supporting the 2745 Sanctions Committee, which expires on 31 August. The sanctions regime covers an asset freeze and prevention of the supply, sale or transfer of weapons and military vehicles and equipment to armed groups and associated individuals operating in the Central African Republic as well as the entry or transit of individuals designated by the Committee.

At 10 a.m., the Security Council will hold its quarterly debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, with briefings expected by Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident Coordinator at the Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Ramiz Alakbarov and High Representative of the Board of Peace to Gaza Nickolay Mladenov.

At 10 a.m. the General Assembly will take action on draft decisions and draft resolutions on a range of topics, including the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council, South-South cooperation for development, peacekeeping operations, the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, global health and foreign policy and the work of its Second Committee (Economic and Financial).

At 10 a.m., the Security Council will hold a briefing on Ukraine, requested by Kyiv following large-scale Russian missile and drone attacks against the capital city, as well as the Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk and Kherson regions, between 18 and 19 July. Kayoko Gotoh, Director and Officer in Charge for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations; and Indrika Ratwatte, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, are expected to brief.