The Security Council must address issues hampering its working methods and credibility, including broadening penholder access, enhancing transparency, unblocking delays in filling and operationalizing subsidiary bodies, and restraining use of the veto, speakers urged the 15-member organ today as it undertook its annual open debate on the subject.
The Security Council will consider and vote on a draft resolution (document S/2025/745), submitted by the United States, renewing the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) for one year, until 15 October 2026.
The Security Council will consider and vote on a draft resolution (document S/2025/736), submitted by the United Kingdom, renewing the 2140 Yemen sanctions regime — which comprises targeted financial and travel ban measures — for another year, until 14 November 2026.
The Security Council votes on the renewal of the mandates of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).
The Security Council today delayed its vote on the renewal of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), whose mandate expires on 15 November.
The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) until 15 November 2026.
After three rounds of balloting, the Security Council today elected Phoebe Okowa (Kenya) as a member of the International Court of Justice, voting concurrently with — but separately from — the General Assembly.
With developments in South Sudan moving “in a negative and possibly dangerous direction”, briefers urged the transitional Government to recommit to the Revitalized Peace Agreement before the situation descends into violence threatening political stability and the UN Mission in the country.
Amid rapidly inflating military expenditures, ever-more-sophisticated trafficking networks and the emergence of technologies, such as 3D-printed weapons, senior United Nations and civil society leaders urged more robust action to stem the bloody and destabilizing flow of small arms and light weapons, as they briefed the Security Council today.
On 3 October 2025, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014) held informal consultations to discuss the final report of the Panel of Experts, which is to be submitted pursuant to paragraph 3 of resolution 2758 (2024).
