Countries in Central Africa are registering electoral progress and notching some security gains, even as climate shocks and increasingly sophisticated terrorist attacks continue to drive human misery across the subregion, the senior UN official there told the Security Council today.
The Security Council today debated the future of the United Nations residual war-crimes court, established in 2010 to complete the remaining work of the Rwanda and former Yugoslavia tribunals after their closure in 2015 and 2017, including proposals to transfer certain technical functions — such as archives management and support for national prosecutions — to the UN Secretariat.
As Afghanistan faces several escalating crises and an extreme humanitarian emergency, the resilience of its people is being severely tested, senior UN officials today warned the Security Council, calling for urgent international action to alleviate the suffering and steer the country onto the right path.
As Ukrainian civilians begin to feel the bite of their fourth winter under siege, speakers in the Security Council today stressed that ongoing negotiations must yield results and that the organ must play its part to alleviate the suffering.
On 9 December 2025, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) removed the following entry from its Sanctions List of individuals and entities.
By waging a war of aggression against Ukraine, the Russian Federation has breached every Principle set out in the Helsinki Final Act 50 years ago — the document that laid the foundation for today’s Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), its Chairperson-in-Office told the Security Council today.
The United Nations mission in Iraq will close its doors this month after more than two decades, its senior leader told the Security Council today, as delegates hailed its work and orderly exit amid complex regional conditions.
In the month of December — a month effectively shortened to three weeks of mandated work due to the imminent year-end holidays — the Security Council will hold signature debates on Afghanistan and “leadership for peace”, while also conducting its first visit to the Middle East in six years, said the organ’s President for December during a Headquarters press conference today.
On 12 November 2025, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022) concerning Haiti held a briefing to Member States during which the Panel of Experts briefed on its final report dated 25 September 2025 (S/2025/597).
