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Monthly Forecast September 2019 Monthly Forecast 1 Overview Overview 2 In Hindsight: Security Council Reform 3 Status Update since our Russia has the Security Council presidency in mandate of UNSMIL in Libya, which expires on August Forecast September. It plans to have two ministerial-lev- 15 September. Ahead of the adoption, briefings by el debates during the high-level week of the UN the Special Representative and head of UNSMIL, 5 Yemen General Assembly in late September. The first will Ghassan Salamé, and the chair of the 1970 Libya 7 Libya be on cooperation between the UN and Regional Sanctions Committee, Deputy Permanent Repre- 9 Syria Organisations, with a focus on the role of the Col- sentative of Germany Ambassador Jürgen Schulz, 10 Peacekeeping lective Security Treaty Organization, the Shanghai are anticipated. Other African issues this month Operations Cooperation Organization, and the Common- include briefings and consultations on the mis- 11 Afghanistan wealth of Independent States. The other debate will sions in Guinea-Bissau and South Sudan. 13 Guinea-Bissau be on peace and security in Africa. Russian foreign A review of the mandate of the UN Investiga- minister Sergey Lavrov is expected to preside, and tive Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes 14 South Sudan the Secretary-General may brief, at both debates. Committed by Da’esh/ISIL is also anticipated in 16 Colombia The Council is also expected to have its com- September. 17 Iraq prehensive annual briefing on the reform ofUN Other Middle East issues that will be consid- 18 Cooperation between peacekeeping from Under-Secretary-General for ered in September include: the UN and Regional Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix, followed • Middle East (Israel/Palestine), the regular Organisations by a debate. briefing and consultations; 19 Peace and Security in Another debate scheduled for September is • Syria, the monthly briefings on the humanitar- Africa for the quarterly meeting on Afghanistan. The ian situation, the political process and the use briefers are expected to be Tadamichi Yamamoto, of chemical weapons; and the Special Representative for Afghanistan and • Yemen, the monthly briefing on implementa- head of UNAMA, Ambassador Dian Triansyah tion of resolutions 2451 and 2452. Djani (Indonesia), as chair of the 1988 Afghani- Regarding Latin America, the Council is stan Sanctions Committee, and representatives of expected to renew the mandate of the UN Verifi- the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the UN cation Mission in Colombia before it expires on Counter-Terrorism Office. The Council will also 25 September. need to renew the mandate of UNAMA, which The Council will also be watching develop- expires on 17 September. ments in the Democratic People’s Republic of An adoption is also anticipated to renew the Korea, Iran and Myanmar. In Hindsight: Security Council Reform When the UN Charter was drafted in 1945, it completed in 1965. Almost 55 years later, there stipulated that the Security Council would be has been no further change in Council member- composed of five permanent members and six ship. Those in favour of reform maintain that the elected members. By the 1960s there was a desire Council’s membership no longer reflects geopolit- 29 August 2019 to expand Council membership, reflecting the ical realities and point to the continuing increase This report is available online at securitycouncilreport.org. increase in UN membership from the 51 found- in UN membership, which now stands at 193. ing member states to 113 by 1963. That year, the At the request of Algeria, Argentina, Bangla- For daily insights by SCR on evolving Security Council actions please General Assembly adopted resolution 1991 A desh, Bhutan, Guyana, India, the Maldives, Nepal, subscribe to our “What’s In Blue” (XVIII), which added four non-permanent mem- Nigeria and Sri Lanka, “the question of equitable series at whatsinblue.org or follow @SCRtweets on Twitter. bers to the Council. The ratification process was representation on and increase in the membership Security Council Report Monthly Forecast September 2019 securitycouncilreport.org 1 In Hindsight: Security Council Reform of the Security Council” was added to the world. The group—which was nicknamed the pillars of the proposed reform. The goals General Assembly agenda in 1979. In 1993, “Group L69” after the symbol of the tabled of this document were to create a foundation the General Assembly adopted resolution resolution—proposed adding six new per- for further intergovernmental negotiations 48/26 establishing an Open-Ended Working manent members, two from Africa, two from and to move closer to text-based negotiations. Group (OEWG) “to consider all aspects of Asia, one from Latin America and the Carib- It included submissions from 120 member the question of increase in the members of bean, and one from WEOG. Additionally, states on their positions and six letters from the Security Council, and other matters relat- L69 advocated for a rotating non-permanent groups and member states that did not want ed to the Security Council”. From that point seat for “small island developing states,” or their proposals in the text itself due to funda- on, the General Assembly began holding both SIDS. The text was never put to a vote. The mental differences of approach. The president formal and informal discussions on the topic. Arab Group, made up of 22 members, also of the General Assembly at the time, Sam In March 2005, as part of a report on wid- continued to promote the idea of a perma- Kutesa, called this document “a sound basis er UN reform and in preparation for a world nent seat for one of its members. upon which member states can engage in text- summit planned for September, Secretary- In 2008 the General Assembly adopted based negotiations during the next phase of General Kofi Annan proposed two models Decision 62/557 “to commence intergovern- the IGN”. Instead of developing and work- for Security Council reform. In the period mental negotiations (IGN) in informal plena- ing through the positions of the Framework leading up to the summit, three groups also ry of the General Assembly”. This marked a Document, however, new papers were created put forward alternative reform models. The move from oral exchanges of views to seeking a in the following years. Each of these papers Group of Four (G4, composed of Brazil, Ger- text on which discussions could be based. The found varying levels of acceptance by the many, India, and Japan) favoured expansion first round of the IGN was held on 19 Febru- members involved in the intergovernmental in both permanent and non-permanent cat- ary 2009. The General Assembly has renewed negotiations. Earlier this year, the co-chairs egories, with the additional permanent mem- its mandate annually, and it remains the prin- produced a revised paper, listing areas of bers composed of the G4 members plus two cipal vehicle for Council reform discussions convergence and disagreement. As members African member states and foregoing the right today. The 2008 decision outlined five main prepare to continue discussions during the to veto for a period of time. The 12-mem- issues for reform: categories of membership to Assembly’s 74th session, it seems that they ber Uniting for Consensus group submitted the Council, the question of the veto, regional will base these on the 2015 Framework Doc- a proposal for no expansion in permanent representation, the size of an enlarged Coun- ument and the 2019 co-chairs’ revised paper. members, but instead a doubling of non- cil and working methods, and the relationship With discussions within the General permanent seats, with six African seats, five between the Council and the General Assem- Assembly entering their 26th year, some cru- to Asia-Pacific, four to Latin American and bly. The question of new members and their cial questions remain unresolved. One view Caribbean states, three to WEOG, and two status has long proved the thorniest. is that the principles of reform must be fully to the Eastern European group. The African The IGN negotiations were chaired from accepted, creating a negotiating text. Anoth- Group proposed to increase the body’s mem- 2009 to mid-2014 by Afghanistan, followed er view is that this process should follow the bership from 15 to 26 through expansion in by Jamaica in 2015 and Luxembourg in 2016. practice of other UN processes, in which a both categories, with Africa granted two per- In 2017 it moved to a system of co-chairs. negotiating text is used to reach compromise manent seats with the right of veto and five Most recently, Luxembourg and the United on different positions. non-permanent seats; this position stemmed Arab Emirates served as co-chairs during the Even how to vote on a future product may from the “Ezulwini consensus”. 73rd session of the General Assembly. The be contested. GA resolution 53/30 (1998) World leaders adopted an outcome docu- IGN tends to hold its meetings during the stipulated that no resolution on the question ment by consensus on 16 September 2005. spring segment of each session, between of Security Council reform could be adopted On Security Council reform, it said that approximately February and May. without the agreement of at least two-thirds of member states “support early reform of the In December 2009, 129 member states its members. Some members, however, have Security Council…in order to make it more signed a letter requesting the IGN chair to called for near-consensus for Security Coun- broadly representative, efficient and transpar- present a text with options to serve as a basis cil reform products, given the consequences of ent and thus to further enhance its effective- for negotiations. Trying to accommodate reform on the Council’s work and outcomes.
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