The Week Ahead at the Security Council

4-8 June 2018

Dear Colleague,

On Monday (4 June), there will be an informal interactive dialogue on the implementation of resolution 2357, which renewed measures related to the arms embargo on Libya. Anticipated briefers include Enrico Credendino, Commander of EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia, and Pedro Serrano, Deputy Secretary-General of the European External Action Service.

On Tuesday (5 June), High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu is scheduled to brief members in consultations on chemical weapons in Syria.

On Wednesday (6 June), the Council expects to hold the 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 Theodor Meron, and the IRMCT’s prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, are expected to brief.

Meetings with troop- and police-contributing countries from the AU/UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) are planned for Wednesday and Thursday (6 and 7 June) respectively.

At the subsidiary body level, Meron and Brammertz are scheduled to meet with the Informal Working Group on International Tribunals on Monday (4 June), two days before the IRMCT debate in the Council.

On Wednesday (6 June), the 1373 Counter-Terrorrism Committee is scheduled to hold a meeting.

There will be a meeting of the 715/1907 Somalia Sanctions Committee on Thursday (7 June), during which the chair of the committee, Ambassador Kairat Umarov (Kazakhstan), will brief on his recent visit to the Horn of Africa region.

A meeting of the 1540 Committee, which focuses on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, is also scheduled for Thursday.

On Friday (8 June), Ambassador Anatolio Ndong Mba (Equatorial Guinea), the chair of the 2048 Guinea-Bissau Sanctions Committee, is expected to brief the committee on his upcoming visit to Guinea-Bissau and Guinea towards the end of June.

Also on Friday, Ambassador Olof Skoog (Sweden), the chair of the 2374 Mali Sanctions Committee, will brief the committee on his visit to Mali in March.

On Friday (8 June), the General Assembly is scheduled to elect five non-permanent Council members. Six member states—Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Indonesia, the Maldives and South Africa—are running for the five available seats. Indonesia and the Maldives are contesting the single Asia-Pacific Group seat, while the other four candidates are running unopposed.

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

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