Security Council

The Security Council holds a briefing on cooperation between the UN and the African Union. Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the African Union and Head of the UN Office to the African Union Parfait Onanga-Anyanga and African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs and Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye are expected to brief. Mr. Onanga-Anyanga is expected to present the Secretary-General’s annual report on strengthening the partnership between the UN and the regional bloc on issues of peace and security in Africa, including the work of the UN Office to the African Union.

Amid deepening conflict and insecurity across Africa, the partnership between the United Nations and the African Union should shift from reactive crisis management to proactive conflict prevention and from abstract frameworks to concrete implementation of Council resolution 2719 (2023), speakers heard today during the Council’s annual meeting on cooperation with the African Union, ahead of their twentieth annual joint consultative meetings later this month.

On 5 October 2026, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) removed the following entry from its Sanctions List of individuals and entities:

The Security Council will hold two signature events in October — on children and armed conflict and on emerging technologies with an emphasis on maritime security — the representative of Greece, its President for the month of October, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.

Pursuant to its veto initiative, speakers in the General Assembly today weighed in on the vetoes recently cast by China and the Russian Federation concerning a Security Council resolution that would have extended the mandate of the Panel of Experts tasked with monitoring implementation of United Nations sanctions on Iran.

Serious challenges remain despite sustained diplomatic engagement to address the conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Security Council heard today, as speakers welcomed the ceasefire monitoring and verification conducted by the UN mission in that country.

The Security Council today renewed the mandate of the Gang Suppression Force in Haiti for six months, as speakers called for its rapid deployment to reclaim territory from armed gangs, restore State authority and create conditions for elections.