Security Council

The Security Council would hold a high-level briefing on the situation in Syria on 21 September, coinciding with the general debate of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly, Gerard van Bohemen (New Zealand), Council President for September, said at a Headquarters press conference today.

The inherent tension between the need for greater confidentiality and calls for wider transparency in the Security Council’s work was highlighted during the body’s “wrap-up” meeting for the month of August.

Unilateral actions by parties to the conflict in Yemen amid a dangerous escalation of armed forces activities would only complicate peace efforts and delay the end of military violence, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to Yemen told the Security Council this morning.

On 30 August 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) approved the removal of the four entries specified below from its List of Individuals and Entities subject to the assets freeze set out by paragraph 23 of Security Council resolution 1483 (2003) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

Political leaders in Guinea-Bissau must put aside partisan considerations and focus on national interests and the welfare of the suffering population, the Security Council heard today during a briefing on the situation in that West African country.

The Security Council this morning extended the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for one year until 31 August 2017, as it expressed concern at limited progress made towards a permanent ceasefire, a decade after the adoption of resolution 1701 (2006), which ended a flare up of violence with Israel that year.

With no prospect for resuming peace negotiations in sight, developments on the ground in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories continued to undermine an already precarious situation, said Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, briefing the Security Council today.

At its fifty-eighth meeting, on 17 May 2016, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, in connection with the examination of the second report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Iraq (S/2015/852), agreed to address the following message through a public statement issued by the Char of the Working Group.

On 26 August 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014) enacted the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entries below on its List of individuals subject to the assets freeze and travel ban measures set out in paragraphs 11 and 15, respectively, of resolution 2140 (2014) and the arms embargo set out in paragraph 14 of resolution 2216 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ramlan Bin Ibrahim (Malaysia):