Five members belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement will sit on the Security Council in 2022
11 October 2021
Of the countries serving terms on the Security Council in 2022, five will be full members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM): Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, representing a drop of one from the 2021 Council . . .
Five members belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement will sit on the Security Council in 2022
11 October 2021
Of the countries serving terms on the Security Council in 2022, five will be full members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM): Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, representing a drop of one from the 2021 Council . . .
Five members belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement will sit on the Security Council in 2022
11 October 2021
Of the countries serving terms on the Security Council in 2022, five will be full members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM): Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, representing a drop of one from the 2021 Council . . .
Five members belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement will sit on the Security Council in 2022
11 October 2021
Of the countries serving terms on the Security Council in 2022, five will be full members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM): Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, representing a drop of one from the 2021 Council . . .
Five members belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement will sit on the Security Council in 2022
11 October 2021
Of the countries serving terms on the Security Council in 2022, five will be full members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM): Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, representing a drop of one from the 2021 Council . . .
Vetoes, insufficient votes and competing draft resolutions accentuate divisions within the Council
2 April 2022
Since 2000, and especially since 2010, there has been a marked increase in divisive votes in the Security Council,
which reflects the fact that some Council members are now less willing to shield the Council's divisions from
public view. In part, this reflects the polarizing nature of some key items more recently before the Council . . .
Last Update: 16 August 2024
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THE PROCEDURE OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL, 4TH EDITION
by Loraine Sievers and Sam Daws, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014
Updated on 4 October 2015
Chapter 3: THE PEOPLE
Section 10: Secretary-General and the Secretariat
Length and content of briefings by representatives of the Secretary-General
As noted in the book (pages 174-175), an issue of concern to a number of Council members has been the length and content of oral briefings by the Secretary-General’s representatives. To discourage lengthy briefings which simply rehash information already contained in the Secretary-General’s written reports, in the 2010 Note by the President (S/2010/507) the Council members provided succinct guidance as to what oral briefings by representatives of the Secretary-General and Secretariat officials should entail:
“As a general rule, the purpose of initial remarks or ad hoc briefings delivered by
members of the Secretariat is to supplement and update written reports of the
Secretary-General or to provide members of the Council with more specific
on-the ground information on the most recent developments, which may not be
covered in the written report. The members of the Security Council encourage
members of the Secretariat to focus on key issues and to provide the latest
information, as necessary, without repeating the content of written reports already available to members of the Council.”
The length and quality of briefings by representatives has remained a problem in 2015. At a Council meeting convened on 30 June 2015 on the subject of working methods (S/PV.7479), the representative of Lithuania affirmed that briefings by the Secretariat “should not duplicate the contents of the reports of the Secretary-General.” He added that because “the Council is always pressed for time in consultations, we expect briefers to be succinct and to focus on critical issues. I believe that during this month, the Council wrote a letter to the Secretariat in that regard.” The step of writing to the Secretary-General sent a fairly serious signal, given the regular informal get-togethers the Council members have with the Secretary-General, such as their monthly luncheons, at which they might convey such a message. However, the Lithuanian representative was “happy to note” that some progress had recently been made in the delivering of such briefings.