During a meeting held to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the massacres in Srebrenica, the Security Council today failed to adopt a resolution that would have emphasized acceptance of those tragic events as genocide as a prerequisite for national reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Continuing attacks by Boko Haram, risks of election instability in several nations, transnational organized crime and Ebola were current top concerns in West Africa, a United Nations official in the region told the Security Council this afternoon.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gerard Jacobus van Bohemen (New Zealand):
Debates on the Middle East and security challenges in small island developing States would be the highlights of the New Zealand presidency of the Security Council in July, a month that would also see several briefings and mandate renewals.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gerard van Bohemen (New Zealand):
On 1 July 2015, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) approved the addition of six entries specified below to its List of individuals and entities subject to the travel ban and assets freeze set out respectively by paragraphs 9 and 12 of Security Council resolution 2206 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:
Peacekeeping, peacebuilding and children in armed conflict had been the centrepieces of the Security Council’s work over the past four weeks, said the Permanent Representative of Malaysia, President of the body for June, in a monthly wrap-up meeting this afternoon.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ramlan Bin Ibrahim (Malaysia):
As a “nightmare of violence and destruction” continued without end in Syria, it was crucial for humanitarian workers to use every route, across borders and conflict lines, to deliver live-saving aid, a top United Nations humanitarian official told the Security Council this morning.
The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) until 30 June 2016, within the authorized troop ceiling of 11,240 military personnel, including, for the first time, at least 40 military observers in order to monitor and supervise the country’s ceasefire.
