The Security Council will hold an open debate on women, peace and security titled “Peace is Decided with Women: Emerging from conflict by enhancing their participation”. Minister for Foreign Affairs Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio of Colombia is expected to chair the meeting, with briefings anticipated by UN Women Executive Director Sima Sami Bahous and a civil society representative.
Urging parties in Yemen to build on fresh momentum generated by the United States-Iran peace deal and the release of 1,600 prisoners held over two years of Yemen’s protracted civil war, speakers in the Security Council today called on the Aden-based Government and Sana’a-based Houthis to work towards an inclusive political settlement.
The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) until 17 June 2027, as speakers warned that the systematic exclusion of women and girls from public life continues to undermine Afghanistan’s prospects for peace, stability and recovery.
Amid its review of the entity tasked with concluding the functions of two landmark international criminal courts, speakers in the Security Council today alternately highlighted the need to safeguard the legacy at stake and finalize the work of a mechanism always envisioned as temporary.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Leonor Zalabata Torres (Colombia):
