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Security Council: Meetings Coverage


SC/11910

Strongly condemning continued fighting, human rights abuses and attacks on the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, the Security Council this afternoon extended the Mission’s mandate for six months, sharpening its focus on protection of civilians, without changing force structure or numbers of troops and police.

SC/11906

As Serbia and Kosovo strove to overcome the legacy of hostility and conflict by working together on subjects of common concern, they should avoid procrastination on implementing the remaining steps of the April 2013 agreement or allowing older issues to shackle opportunities to open new ground, the top United Nations official there told the Security Council today.

SC/11901

The Security Council this morning adopted a text urging stronger cooperation in stemming the “illicit transfer, destabilizing accumulation and misuse” of small arms and light weapons, underlining the suffering they caused to civilians, although six members abstained, citing insufficient attention to keeping arms from all non-State actors.

SC/11899

Following the end of a political crisis that had gripped Somalia for four months, the process of building a federal State had regained momentum, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General told the Security Council today, stressing that overcoming the prevailing environment of mistrust, accumulated over 25 years, deserved sustained support.