Security Council

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):

On 1 July 2015, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) approved the addition of six entries specified below to its List of individuals and entities subject to the travel ban and assets freeze set out respectively by paragraphs 9 and 12 of Security Council resolution 2206 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

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

Peacekeeping, peacebuilding and children in armed conflict had been the centrepieces of the Security Council’s work over the past four weeks, said the Permanent Representative of Malaysia, President of the body for June, in a monthly wrap-up meeting this afternoon.