The Week Ahead at the UN Security Council

9-13 December 2019

Dear Colleague,

The Secretary-General’s luncheon with Security Council members will be held on Monday (9 December).

On Tuesday (10 December), the Council will meet with the troop contributing countries of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).

On Wednesday (11 December), the Council expects to hold its semi-annual debate on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), which was established in 2010 to carry out the remaining essential functions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) after their respective closures. The IRMCT’s president, Judge Carmel Agius, and prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, are expected to brief during the debate.

On Thursday (12 December), Council members will discuss Yemen in consultations. Special Envoy Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock, and General Abhijit Guha, the head of the UN Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) and chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC), are likely to participate in the meeting.

Ambassador Joanna Wronecka (Poland), chair of the 1591 Sudan Sanctions Committee, is expected to provide the quarterly briefing to Council members on the Committee’s work on Thursday.

Also on Thursday, the Department of Peace Operations (DPO) will brief Council members in consultations on the Secretary-General’s latest 90-day report on UNDOF and the most recent developments.

At the subsidiary body level, the Working Group on International Tribunals is scheduled to meet on Monday (9 December) with the president and the prosecutor of IRMCT.

On Friday (13 December), the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict will hold a meeting during which it plans to discuss its conclusions on the Central African Republic.

The Military Staff Committee will meet on Friday and may discuss the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM).

Also on Friday, a meeting of the 1373 Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) is anticipated.

On Monday (9 December), an Arria-formula will be held on the "Protection of the Environment during Armed Conflict" that will be hosted by Estonia, Germany, Kuwait and Peru.

Background information on many of these issues has been published in our December 2019 Monthly Forecast.

Further Council developments will be posted to What’s In Blue.