Security Council

Addressing the situation in Guinea-Bissau today, the Security Council strongly deplored the repeated military interferences in civilian affairs and called for respect of the constitutional order, including the electoral process.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gérard Araud (France):

The Security Council today authorized both the deployment of the African-led International Support Mission in the Central African Republic, known as MISCA, and the French troops already stationed in the strife-torn nation to support, by all necessary measures, the Mission in discharging its mandate.

Over the course of two decades, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia had generated an extensive corpus of law and helped to end impunity, the Security Council heard today as it reviewed the court’s work, as well as that of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the judicial body mandated to complete their tasks.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gérard Araud (France):

On 4 December 2013, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name of the individual below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gérard Araud (France):

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia decided on 29 November 2013 to delist the following individual from the list of individuals subject to the travel restrictions imposed by paragraph 4 (a) of resolution 1521 (2003) (the travel ban list). The measures no longer apply to this individual.

The Security Council’s priorities for December focused on the complex situations in the Central African Republic and Syria, as well as on peace and security in Africa’s volatile Sahel region, the Permanent Representative of France, Gérard Araud, said today at a Headquarters press conference as he assumed the 15-nation body’s presidency.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Liu Jieyi (China):