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A/57/2 United Nations Report of the Security Council 16 June 2001-31 July 2002 General Assembly Official Records Fifty-seventh Session Supplement No. 2 (A/57/2) General Assembly Official Records Fifty-seventh Session Supplement No. 2 (A/57/2) Report of the Security Council 16 June 2001-31 July 2002 United Nations • New York, 2002 A/57/2 Note Symbols of United Nations documents are composed of capital letters combined with figures. Mention of such a symbol indicates a reference to a United Nations document. Documents of the Security Council (symbol S/...) are normally published in quarterly Supplements to the Official Records of the Security Council. The date of the document indicates the supplement in which it appears or in which information about it is given. The resolutions of the Security Council are published in yearly volumes of Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council. ISSN 0082-8238 [27 September 2002] Contents Chapter Page Introduction .................................................................... 1 Part I Activities relating to all questions considered by the Security Council under its responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security I. Resolutions adopted by the Security Council during the period from 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002.................................................................... 9 II. Statements made and/or issued by the President of the Security Council during the period from 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002 ................................................. 13 III. Official communiqués issued by the Security Council during the period from 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002 ................................................................. 16 IV. Monthly assessments by former Presidents of the work of the Security Council for the period from 1 July 2001 to 31 July 2002 ............................................. 22 V. Meetings of the Security Council held during the period from 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002 .. 23 VI. Annual reports of the sanctions committees .......................................... 49 VII. Meetings of the Security Council and troop-contributing countries held during the period from 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002 ................................................. 50 VIII. Meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council held during the period from 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002 ...................................................... 52 IX. Meetings of the working groups of the Security Council held during the period from 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002 ...................................................... 56 X. Panels and monitoring mechanisms and their reports................................... 57 XI. Security Council missions undertaken and their reports ................................ 58 XII. Peacekeeping operations functioning, established or terminated, 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002.................................................................... 59 XIII. Reports of the Secretary-General issued during the period from 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002. 61 XIV. Summary statements by the Secretary-General on matters of which the Security Council was seized during the period from 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002 ......................... 66 XV. Notes by the President of the Security Council issued during the period from 16 June 2001 to 31 July 2002 ................................................................. 67 iii Part II Questions considered by the Security Council under its responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security 1. Items relating to the situation in the former Yugoslavia................................. 69 A. Security Council resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998), 1203 (1998), 1239 (1999) and 1244 (1999) ................................................................ 69 B. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina ........................................ 72 C. The situation in Croatia ...................................................... 74 D. The situation in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ....................... 76 E. Briefing by His Excellency Mr. Nebojša Čović, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ................................................ 77 F. International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 ................................................................. 78 2. The situation in Somalia .......................................................... 79 3. Role of the Security Council in the prevention of armed conflicts ........................ 82 4. The situation between Iraq and Kuwait .............................................. 83 5. The situation in Burundi .......................................................... 94 6. The responsibility of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security: HIV/AIDS and international peacekeeping operations .......................... 97 7. The situation in Sierra Leone ...................................................... 98 8. The situation concerning Western Sahara ............................................ 102 9. The situation in the Central African Republic......................................... 105 10. The situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo ......................... 107 11. The situation in East Timor ....................................................... 115 12. The situation in Afghanistan....................................................... 117 13. The situation in Georgia .......................................................... 123 14. Items relating to the situation in the Middle East ...................................... 125 A. The situation in the Middle East ............................................... 125 1. United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and developments in the Israel-Lebanon sector .................................................... 125 2. United Nations Disengagement Observer Force .............................. 130 B. The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question .................. 131 15. Small arms ..................................................................... 152 iv 16. Strengthening cooperation with troop-contributing countries ............................ 153 A. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A .................................................................. 153 B. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A .................................................................. 154 C. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A .................................................................. 155 D. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A ...................................... 156 E. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A .......................................................... 157 F. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A .................................................................. 158 G. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A.................................................... 160 H. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A .................................................................. 161 I. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A .................................................................. 162 J. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A .................................................................. 163 K. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A .................................................................. 164 L. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, section A .......................................................... 166 17. Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts ....................... 168 18. The situation between Eritrea and Ethiopia..........................................