Security Council

5226^th Meeting (Night)

Security Council, in presidential statement, condemns massacre

 

of women, children in Democratic Republic of Congo

Members Call on Congolese Authorities

To Prosecute Perpetrators, Stress Need to End Armed Attacks

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETS SENIOR OFFICIALS OF AUSTRALIA TO DISCUSS

IMPLEMENTATION OF SANCTIONS AGAINST AL-QAIDA, TALIBAN

 

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON MIDDLE EAST

 

Following is the Security Council press statement on the Middle East, delivered today by Council President Adamantios Th. Vassilakis (Greece):

The members of the Security Council unequivocally condemned the terrorist bombing in Lebanon today that killed one person north of Beirut and wounded several others, including Lebanon’s Defence Minister, Elias Al-Murr.

Security Council

5225^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT STRESSES ‘MORAL IMPERATIVE’

OF PREVENTING ESCALATION OF ARMED CONFLICTS, HUMANITARIAN CRISES

Secretary-General Says ‘Our Task Should Be to Prevent Such Suffering’;

Too Often, Efforts Failed because Threat Not Recognized until Too Late

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA

Following is the Security Council press statement on Ethiopia and Eritrea, delivered today by Council President Adamantios Th. Vassilakis (Greece):

Members of the Council heard a briefing from the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations on the situation between Ethiopia and Eritrea during informal consultations on 11 July.

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETS SENIOR OFFICIALS OF NETHERLANDS TO DISCUSS

 

IMPLEMENTATION OF SANCTIONS AGAINST AL-QAIDA, TALIBAN

 

Security Council

5224^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS ASSASSINATION OF EGYPT’S AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ,

REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR POLITICAL TRANSITION, IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON LONDON TERRORIST ATTACK

Following is the Security Council press statement on the London bombings delivered by Council President Adamantios Th. Vassilakis (Greece):

I wish first to express the Council’s outrage and indignation at today’s appalling terrorist attacks against the people of the United Kingdom that cost human life and caused injuries and immense human suffering.

Security Council

5223^rd Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS ‘BARBARIC’ LONDON TERRORIST ATTACKS,

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1611 (2005)

 

Calling the terrorist attacks in London today “barbaric”, the Security Council condemned without reservation the attacks and expressed its utmost determination to combat terrorism in accordance with its Charter responsibilities.

Security Council

5222^nd Meeting (AM)

FOLLOWING 15 JUNE INAUGURATION OF BOUGAINVILLE’S AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT,

UNITED NATIONS MANDATE FULLY IMPLEMENTED, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Assistant Secretary-General Briefs on Successful Elections;

Culmination of Peace Process Begun in 1997 after Brutal Civil Conflict