CHAPTER 7: Section 4 Changes
Trends in the manner of adopting Statements by the President
21 January 2019
In deciding whether or not to read out a particular PRST in full, Council members, and especially Council Presidents, must in each case prioritize either the interests of making more widely known the exact provisions of a presidential statement or the need to manage a very charged work programme . . .
Dissociation by Venezuela from a presidential statement on Syria
18 August 2015
On 17 August 2015, the Security Council adopted a presidential statement supporting the efforts of the UN Special Envoy for Syria. Thereafter, the representative of Venezuela remarked that “While it did not block the adoption of presidential statement S/PRST/2015/15 and joined in the consensus”, his delegation did not subscribe to paragraphs 8 and 10 of the statement, and was dissociating from them . . .