Security Council

With some United Nations peacekeeping operations deployed in increasingly hostile environments, battling asymmetric unconventional threats where there was no peace to keep and no viable political process upon which to build, speakers in the Security Council today wrestled with the potentially injurious implications of “robust” mandates for the peacekeepers themselves.

On 21 April 2014, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning Sudan approved the updates, as underlined below, to two existing entries on its List of Individuals Subject to the Travel Ban and Assets Freeze.

The Security Council today extended until 9 July 2015 the mandate of the Panel of Experts originally established under resolution 1929 (2010) to further implementation of Council resolution 1737 (2006), by which it had called on Iran to build confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme.

Warning the use of force in strife-torn Libya would have “disastrous consequences”, the United Nations senior official in that country today urged all parties to resolve the current political impasse through peaceful means and called upon the Organization to facilitate a political dialogue.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly I. Churkin (Russian Federation):

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly I. Churkin (Russian Federation):

On 2 June, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict was briefed via video-teleconference by the Co-Chairs of the South Sudan Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting on the situation of children and armed conflict in South Sudan, in particular since the onset of the conflict on 15 December 2013.

Briefing the Security Council on the work of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, including the transfer of cases to the Residual Mechanism, judges and prosecutors alike noted progress but stressed the need for continued support, while speakers in debate generally agreed that the voices of victims were being heard and historical records were being preserved.

If urgent funding were not secured immediately, hard-won gains made in Somalia would be reversed, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council today.