The Week Ahead at the UN Security Council

8 October - 12 October 2018

Dear Colleague,

Council members return from their visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Monday (8 October).

On Tuesday (9 October), High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu is expected to brief members in consultations on chemical weapons in Syria.

On Tuesday there will also be a meeting of troop contributors to the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). This will be followed by consultations on MINURSO with a briefing by Special Representative Colin Stewart and a representative from the Department of Political Affairs on Thursday (11 October).

Also on Thursday the Council is scheduled to adopt a resolution on the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei’s support for the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JBVMM), established in 2011 to conduct monitoring and verification activities along the Sudan-South Sudan border.

A briefing by the co-leads of the DRC visiting mission (Bolivia, France and Equatorial Guinea) is planned for Thursday as well.

Additionally, there will a briefing by Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative and head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC on the Secretary-General’s latest MONUSCO report, which will be followed by consultations.

At the subsidiary body level, on Monday (8 October), the Counter-Terrorism Committee, in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, will have a public session on the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism, and arms trafficking and terrorism.

The Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict is scheduled to meet on Wednesday (10 October) for the introduction of the report on Children and Armed Conflict in South Sudan.

On Friday (11 October), the 751/1907 Somalia and Eritrea Sanctions Committee will meet to discuss the final report of the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group.

Background information on these and other issues has been published in the October 2018 Monthly Forecast.

Further Council developments will be published on What’s In Blue.