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 . . .
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THE PROCEDURE OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL, 4TH EDITION
by Loraine Sievers and Sam Daws, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014
CHAPTER 5: Section 6 Changes
A historical overview of the “penholder” practice for drafting Council outcome documents
2 February 2023
Over the history of the Security Council, the practice of “penholding” – that is, the arrangements by which one or
more Council members initiate draft outcome documents – can be viewed as having had three main phases. . .
Resolution 2573 (2021) on protecting critical infrastructure is Council’s latest ‘presidential text’
3 May 2021
On 27 April 2021, during a VTC open debate on ‘Critical infrastructure: The protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population’, the Security Council adopted 2573 (2021), the third resolution within a year’s time to be a ‘presidential text’, that is, a draft co-sponsored by all 15 Council members . . .
Backgrounder on the “penholder” practice for drafting outcome documents (with Table)
2 February 2023
At a time when the Security Council is adopting more than 200 outcome documents per year, the role of “lead country” or “penholder” has never been more important. And yet the parameters of this practice are somewhat obscure, as are its origins . . .
Resolution 2538 (2020) on women in peacekeeping is announced as a ‘presidential text’
3 September 2020
On 28 August 2020, via webcast, the Council President (Indonesia) announced that the Council’s first stand-alone resolution on women in peacekeeping operations had been unanimously adopted and was a ‘presidential text’ . . .
The “lead country” or “penholder” practice for drafting outcome documents (with Table)
Revised on 17 May 2020
At a time when the Security Council is adopting more than 200 outcome documents per year, the role of “lead country” or “penholder” has never been more important. And yet the parameters of this practice are somewhat obscure, as are its origins . . .
Russian Federation and Bolivia use Rule 35 to change voting order for Syria JIM drafts
26 December 2017
On 16 November 2017, the Council convened to take up two draft resolutions on renewing the mandate of the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) for Syria, one prepared by the Russian Federation, and the other by the United States . . .
Adding co-sponsors after a vote on a resolution
1 November 2014
It has long been the Council’s practice that no new co-sponsors can be added after a resolution has been put to a vote. This practice, however, is not set out in writing, and therefore is subject to modification at the Council’s discretion . . .