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: 18 Apr. 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
CHAPTER 8: Section 5(a) Changes
2019 presidential note expands political guidance for Council missions to the field, and undertakes to be more inclusive
30 January 2020
On 27 December 2019, after two years of negotiations in the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions, under the chairmanship of Kuwait, the Security Council adopted presidential note S/2019/990 on the subject of its missions to the field . . .
For first time in Council’s history, African Council members are sole co-leads for mission to Africa
Updated on 1 Oct. 2020
From 13 to 17 February 2019, the Security Council members embarked on a mission to West Africa, and the sole co-leads for both legs of the mission were Côte d’Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea. This marks the first time in the Council’s history that a mission to Africa of all 15 Council members has been exclusively led by two African co-leads . . .
Is unanimity required for Security Council missions to the field?
7 October 2017
In the context of missions to the field which have been delayed or blocked owing to the opposition of some Council members, other members have asked whether, procedurally, there is a way to dispatch a mission in the absence of full consensus . . .
Effective demarche by Council members during their May 2016 mission to Somalia
17 July 2016
The terms of reference for the Security Council mission to the Horn of Africa from 17 to 22 May 2016 included the following objective for the visit to Mogadishu: “To reaffirm to the Government of Somalia the expectation of the Security Council that elections will be held in August 2016” . . .
Missions to the field by some, but not all, Security Council members
28 February 2016
On 29 January 2016, the British representative, noting that the Council’s delay in agreeing to visit to Burundi “weakened our message at a time when sustained pressure was needed”, wondered “whether we should move away from consensus in agreeing such visits” . . .
Council business conducted at Headquarters while a Council mission is in the field
26 February 2016
Because the Council’s missions to the field are considered to be subsidiary bodies of the Council, the Council can conduct business at Headquarters while representatives of Council members are abroad. This occurred during the Council’s mission to Africa in January 2016 . . .