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The Security Council today extended until 15 December 2015 the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping operation for the disputed Abyei area bordering Sudan and South Sudan.

The members of the Security Council welcomed the Secretary-General’s announcement on 9 July and parties’ commitment to a humanitarian pause in Yemen.  The members of the Security Council welcomed President Hadi’s letter of 8 July indicating his support for a humanitarian pause and the Secretary-General’s announcement on 9 July of the commitment by the Houthis, the General People’s Congress and other parties to support a humanitarian pause.

On 10 July 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entry below on its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2161 (2014) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Jacobus van Bohemen (New Zealand):

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gerard Jacobus van Bohemen (New Zealand):

With Burundi “back on the brink”, all political stakeholders in that country needed to put national well-being above narrow ambitions in order to preserve the hard-won gains towards building democratic institutions and a common community, the Security Council heard today from two top United Nations officials.

During a meeting held to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the massacres in Srebrenica, the Security Council today failed to adopt a resolution that would have emphasized acceptance of those tragic events as genocide as a prerequisite for national reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Continuing attacks by Boko Haram, risks of election instability in several nations, transnational organized crime and Ebola were current top concerns in West Africa, a United Nations official in the region told the Security Council this afternoon.

Debates on the Middle East and security challenges in small island developing States would be the highlights of the New Zealand presidency of the Security Council in July, a month that would also see several briefings and mandate renewals.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gerard Jacobus van Bohemen (New Zealand):