The Week Ahead at the UN Security Council

1 October - 5 October 2018

Dear Colleague,

On Monday (1 October), Bolivia will assume the monthly presidency of the Security Council. The programme of work for the month is also expected to be adopted on Monday.

On Wednesday (3 October), the Council is scheduled to adopt a resolution renewing the authorisation for member states to inspect vessels on the high seas off the coast of Libya when reasonable grounds exist to suspect they are being used for migrant smuggling or human trafficking.

On the same day, the Council is scheduled to receive its annual briefing from the chairs of its counter-terrorism-related committees, Ambassador Sacha Sergio Llorenty Solíz (Bolivia), chair of the 1540 Committee, which focuses on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; Ambassador Kairat Umarov (Kazakhstan), chair of the 1267/1989/2253 Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee; and Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra Velásquez (Peru), chair of the 1373 Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). Solíz is also expected to address the joint activities of all three committees.

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, also on Wednesday.

Later in the week, the Council will depart on a visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that will be co-led by Bolivia, France and Equatorial Guinea and is expected to focus on political developments in the DRC, including the upcoming elections scheduled for December.

At the subsidiary body level, the chair of the 2127 Central African Republic (CAR) Sanctions Committee, Ambassador Kacou Houadja Léon Adom (Côte d’Ivoire), is scheduled to undertake a visiting mission to the country during the week.

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.