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This table has been jointly compiled by Sam Daws and Loraine Sievers, as co-authors of The Procedure of the UN Security Council, and the staff of Security Council Report. The support extended by the Security Council Affairs Division in the compilation of the list is hereby recognised and greatly appreciated.

ARRIA-FORMULA MEETINGS, 1992-2018

DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

Mar. 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina; S/1999/286; Fra Jozo Zovko (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Venezuela ST/PSCA/1/Add.12

18 Dec. 1992 Persecution of Shiite ‘Marsh Arabs’ M.P. Emma Nicholson (UK) Venezuela, Hungary in Iraq

3 Mar. 1993 Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina

24 Mar. 1993 Former Yugoslavia David Owen and Cyrus Vance, Co-Chairs of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia

15 Apr. 1993 South Africa Richard Goldstone, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry regarding Venezuela the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation in South Africa

25 June 1993 Bosnia and Herzegovina Contact Group of the Organization of the Islamic Conference

12 Aug. 1993 Bosnia and Herzegovina Organization of the Islamic Conference ministerial mission

6 Sept. 1993 Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina

28 Sept. 1993 Croatia Permanent Representative of Croatia

2 Mar. 1994 Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia Czech Republic

18 Mar. 1994 Croatia Franjo Tudjman, President of Croatia

11 Apr. 1994 Bosnia and Herzegovina Vice President of Bosnia and Herzegovina

26 May 1994 Central America Alfredo Cristiani, President of El Salvador

6 July 1994 Haiti Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic

17 Nov. 1994 Rwanda Representative of NATO

15 Dec. 1994 Rwanda Vice-President of Rwanda

16 Dec. 1994 Rwanda Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire

3 May 1995 Former Yugoslavia—Sanctions Antonio Napolitano, Sanctions Coordinator of the Assistance Missions EU and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

13 June 1995 Western Sahara

29 Sept. 1995 African issues High-level representative of the Organization of African Unity

7 Oct. 1995 Western Sahara Permanent Representative of Morocco

20 Oct.1995 Western Sahara Minister of State for the Interior of Morocco

19 Dec. 1995 Ethiopia and Sudan—attempted Deputy Foreign Minister of Ethiopia assassination of President Hosni Mubarak

21 Dec. 1995 African issues, with focus on Ethiopia Salim Salim, Organization of African Unity Secretary-General and Sudan

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

17 Jan. 1996 Ethiopia and Sudan—attempted Foreign Minister of Sudan assassination of President Hosni Mubarak

19 Jan. 1996 Great Lakes region—Burundi and Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania and mediator for the Rwanda Arusha peace negotiations

27 Feb. 1996 Downing of US civil aircraft Foreign Minister of Cuba

29 Feb. 1996 General Assembly Working Group on General Assembly President UN Reform

20 Mar. 1996 Ethiopia and Sudan—attempted OAU representative in New York assassination of President Hosni Mubarak

28 Mar. 1996 Liberia Foreign Minister of the National Transitional Government of Liberia

23 Apr. 1996 African peacekeeping issues Salim Salim, Organization of African Unity Secretary-General Botswana, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau

13 June 1996 Great Lakes region Aldo Ajello, EU Special Representative for the Great Lakes Italy Region

14 June 1996 Cyprus Foreign Minister of Cyprus Indonesia

26 June 1996 International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

29 July 1996 Post-conflict reconstruction and Mark Malloch-Brown, Vice-President of the World Bank; USG for UK stabilization Humanitarian Affairs

21 Aug. 1996 Burundi Burundi opposition parties ‘FRODEBU’ and ‘UPRONA’, Chile represented by Parliamentarians for Global Action

23 Sept. 1996 Great Lakes region—Burundi and Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania and mediator for the Botswana Rwanda Arusha peace negotiations

27 Sept. 1996 Angola Foreign Minister of Angola Botswana

30 Sept. 1996 International Tribunal for the Former Richard Goldstone, ICTY/ICTR Prosecutor US Yugoslavia (ICTY)/International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

2 Oct. 1996 Liberia Foreign Minister of Nigeria Botswana

3 Oct. 1996 Middle East—Middle East peace Ahmed Abdel-Meguid, Secretary-General of the League of Arab Egypt process, Iraq, Libya States

8 Oct. 1996 Sierra Leone Ahmad Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone Russian Federation

13 Nov. 1996 Children and armed conflict Graça Machel, Expert of the Secretary-General on the impact of Botswana war on children

19 Dec. 1996 Great Lakes region Aldo Ajello, EU Special Representative for the Great Lakes Botswana Region

28 Jan. 1997 Great Lakes region Foreign Minister of Zaire Kenya

5 Mar. 1997 Occupied Arab territories—East Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority and Egypt Jerusalem Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization

24 Apr. 1997 Children abducted by the Lord’s Kintu Musoke, Prime Minister of Uganda UK Resistance Army

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

19 May 1997 Great Lakes region—Burundi and Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania and mediator for the Kenya Rwanda Arusha peace negotiations

10 July 1997 Sierra Leone; S/PV.3797 ECOWAS Committee of Four (Foreign Ministers of Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria)

21 July 1997 Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia France

22 July 1997 Republic of the Congo Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Congo Egypt

28 July 1997 Nagorno-Karabakh Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Egypt

15 Sept. 1997 Human rights Amnesty International. Portugal

19 Sept. 1997 Sierra Leone ECOWAS Committee of Five (Foreign Ministers of Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria)

2 Oct. 1997 UN Human Rights Investigation Team Foreign Minister of the DRC Guinea-Bissau for the Democratic Republic of the Congo

15 Oct. 1997 Background on ”Arria-formula” Diego Arria, former Permanent Representative of Venezuela Portugal meetings

11 Nov. 1997 Sierra Leone ECOWAS Committee of Five (Foreign Ministers of Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria)

6 Feb. 1998 Sierra Leone; S/1998/107 ECOWAS Committee of Five (Foreign Ministers of Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria)

4 Mar. 1998 Sierra Leone ECOWAS Committee of Five (Foreign Ministers of Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria)

17 Mar. 1998 Burundi; S/1998/243 Minister for External Affairs and Cooperation of Burundi Gabon

26 Mar. 1998 Great Lakes region Aldo Ajello, EU Special Representative for the Great Lakes UK Region

15 Apr. 1998 Lincoln Agreement, signed in John Kaputin, Special Envoy of Papua New Guinea Japan Bougainville

27 Apr. 1998 Iraq Chief of UN Sanctions Branch; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq; Russia Oil Minister of Iraq

10 June 1998 Angola Vice-Minister of Territorial Administration of Angola Russia

31 July 1998 Guinea-Bissau José Luís de Jesus, Foreign Minister of Cape Verde and Chair of Portugal the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries

31 Aug. 1998 DRC Badimanyi Mulumba, Special Envoy of DRC President Laurent Kenya Kabila

5 Oct. 1998 African issues, with a focus on the Salim Salim, Organization of African Unity Secretary-General Kenya DRC

8 Oct. 1998 Angola Vice-Minister of Territorial Administration of Angola Russia

11 Dec. 1998 Guinea-Bissau Foreign Ministers of Niger, Senegal, and Togo Gambia

12 Jan. 1999 Great Lakes region—Burundi and Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania and mediator for the Gabon Rwanda; S/1999/53 Arusha peace negotiations

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

12 Jan. 1999 Burundi President of the National Assembly of Burundi Gabon

22 Feb. 1999 Angola Vice-Minister of Territorial Administration of Angola

22 Feb. 1999 Angola Foreign Minister of Zambia

22 Mar. 1999 Situation between Eritrea and Vice Foreign Minister of Ethiopia Namibia Ethiopia; S/1999/304; S/1999/624

22 Mar. 1999 Situation between Eritrea and Foreign Minister of Eritrea Namibia Ethiopia; S/1999/325; S/1999/624

3 June 1999 Situation between Eritrea and Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso and representative of the Chair Gabon Ethiopia; S/1999/624 of the Organization of African Unity

14 Sept. 1999 Lusaka Accords (Angola-South Africa ceasefire)

Nov. 1999 DRC UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the France DRC

10 Apr. 2000 DRC Parliamentarians for Global Action Jamaica

12 Apr. 2000 Protection of civilians in armed Representatives from CARE International, Médecins Sans Netherlands conflict; S/2000/707; S/PV.4130 Frontières and Oxfam

16 June 2000 DRC Representative of the Facilitator of the Inter-Congolese Dialogue

25 July 2000 Children and armed conflict; Sub-Committee on Children and Armed Conflict; World Vision; Namibia S/2000/1053; S/PV.4176 Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children

19 Oct. 2000 Western Sahara Mohammed Abdelaziz, Secretary-General of POLISARIO Jamaica

23 Oct. 2000 Women and peace and security; Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children; OAU Jamaica S/PV.4208 African Women’s Committee on Peace and Democratization and Federation of Africa Women’s Peace Movements; Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Africa Office of Equality Now; Amnesty International; International Peace Research Association; Hague Appeal for Peace; National Union of Guatemalan Women; International Alert; CARE International

27 Oct. 2000 DRC; S/PV.4237 UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the France DRC

6 Mar. 2001 Southern Serbia and the former Secretary General of NATO Norway Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; S/2001/730; S/PV.4289

16 Mar. 2001 West Africa Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Senegal; Parliamentarians Jamaica for Global Action

23 Mar. 2001 DRC UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the France DRC

30 Apr. 2001 Women and peace and security

7 May 2001 DRC UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the France DRC

29 May 2001 Safety and security of UN personnel; President of the Federation of International Civil Servants Bangladesh S/PV.4323; S/PV.4340 Associations

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

19 July 2001 DRC Representatives from Amnesty International, Human Rights France Watch and Oxfam

26 July 2001 East Timor; S/PV.4351 NYU Center on International Cooperation; Human Rights Watch; Singapore International Crisis Group; International Peace Academy

17 Oct. 2001 Liberia; S/2001/1298 Representatives from Amnesty International, Global Witness, Jamaica Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam

30 Oct. 2001 Women and peace and security Women participants in peace efforts in Afghanistan, East Timor, Jamaica and Kosovo; Elisabeth Rehn, former UN official; NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security

7 Nov. 2001 Afghanistan UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Colombia Afghanistan

14 Nov. 2001 Liberia Foreign Minister of Liberia Singapore

19 Dec. 2001 Situation of women in Afghanistan; Delegations participating in “Equality Now” seminar Jamaica S/PV.4439

6 Feb. 2002 Afghanistan Sadako Ogata, former UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ireland

5 Mar. 2002 Angola Representatives from Human Rights Watch, Médecins Sans Singapore Frontières, Oxfam and Save the Children

8 Mar. 2002 Situation of women in Sierra Leone; Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women UK S/PV.4492

19 Mar. 2002 Women and children affected Mano River Women’s Peace Network; UN Development Fund Singapore by conflicts in Mano River Union for Women, represented by Elisabeth Rehn, former UN official, countries and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian political figure who was later elected President of Liberia

22 Mar. 2002 Truth and Reconciliation Commission Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Ireland for Sierra Leone International Centre for Transitional Justice

25 Apr. 2002 DRC Representatives from Amnesty International, Human Rights France Watch and Oxfam

7 May 2002 Women and peace and security in the Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shamas, Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Norway context of the Middle East Counselling in East Jerusalem; Terry Greenblat, Bat Shalom

21 May 2002 Mano River Union region Representatives from Amnesty International, Human Rights France Watch and Médecins Sans Frontières

25 June 2002 DRC Amnesty International

6 Oct. 2002 Afghanistan

23 Oct. 2002 Women and peace and security; Angelina Acheng Atyam, Chair of Concerned Parents Association Singapore S/2003/820 in Uganda; Sabine Sabimbona, Member of Parliament and of the Collective of Women’s Organizations and NGOs of Burundi; Gila Svirsky, co-founder of Women In Black and of Coalition of Women for a Just Peace (Israel); Vahida Nainar, past Executive Director of the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice (India); UN Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues; NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security

6 Nov. 2002 Afghanistan UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan and Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

7 Nov. 2002 Burundi UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burundi

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

11 Dec. 2002 Afghanistan; S/2003/77 International Crisis Group

13 Jan. 2003 Children and armed conflict; Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children; Mexico, with France S/PV.4684 Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers; Human Rights Watch; Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict; CARE International; Save the Children

9 Apr. 2003 Humanitarian aid situation in Iraq Representatives from Amnesty International, CARE International, Pakistan Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam and Save the Children

9 Sept. 2003 Liberia Human Rights Watch; Médecins Sans Frontières; Oxfam; Save UK the Children; International Peace Academy; Human Rights Watch; Greenpeace; Amnesty International; CARE International; Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict

3 November 2003 Afghanistan—human rights; Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and Germany The meeting was held S/2003/1074 representatives of other civil society groups in Kabul

13 Jan. 2004 Children and armed conflict Representatives from Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, France S/PV.4898 Human Rights Watch, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, CARE International, World Vision and Save the Children

22 Jan. 2004 Role of the UN in post-conflict Representatives from Amnesty International, Human Rights Chile national reconciliation; S/PV.4903 Watch, International Center for Transitional Justice and International Peace Academy

24 May 2004 Darfur; S/2004/614 Médecins Sans Frontières; International Crisis Group; Human Germany Rights Watch; Deputy Permanent Representative of the Sudan

16 June 2004 Security Council mission to West Amnesty International; CARE International; Human Rights UK Africa Watch; Oxfam; Greenpeace; Refugees International; Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children; Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict; International Crisis Group

30 Sept. 2004 Justice and rule of Law Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; International Center Chile for Transnational Justice; International Peace Academy; William O’Neill, Chair of UN Task Force on Developing Rule of Law Strategies in Peace Operations

21 Oct. 2004 Women and peace and security Mano River Women’s Peace Network; International Rescue Benin Committee; Ndabaga Association (Rwanda); Albanian American Women’s Organization; Sudanese Women’s Voice for Peace; Indigenous Network; International Center for Transitional Justice; NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security

5 Nov. 2004 Security Council mission to Central Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; Refugees Africa International

19 Nov. 2004 Sudan Sudan Production Aid; Community Development Association; US The meeting was held South Sudan Development Initiative; Sudanese Women’s Voice in Nairobi, Kenya for Peace; Sudan Advocacy Coalition; South Sudan Law Society; CARE International; Christian Aid; New Sudan Indigenous NGO Network; Save the Children

16 Feb. 2005 Children and armed conflict; Backward Society Education (Nepal); CARE International; France S/2005/399 Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers; Forefront; Human Rights Watch; Norwegian Refugee Council; Save the Children; Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict; Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children; World Vision

8 Apr. 2005 Haiti Amnesty International; Fondasyon Mapou; Médecins Sans Argentina Frontières; World Vision

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

27 July 2005 Darfur CARE International; Human Rights Watch; International Crisis Group; Oxfam; Médecins Sans Frontières; Samaritan’s Purse; World Vision

28 July 2005 Africa’s food crisis as a threat to Amnesty International; CARE International; Catholic Relief peace and security Services; Human Rights Watch; Oxfam; Save the Children; World Vision

10 Aug. 2005 DRC Amnesty International; Global Witness, International Crisis Group; International Rescue Committee

25 Oct. 2005 Women and peace and security; Basma Fahkri of Hanaa Edwar (Iraq); Goretti Ndacayisaba of Denmark S/2005/763 Dushirehamwe (Burundi); NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security; Swanee Hunt of Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace

22 Nov. 2005 Protection of civilians in armed CARE International, International Rescue Committee, Oxfam, UK conflict Save the Children

24 Jan. 2006 Great Lakes region John Baptist Odama, Archbishop of Uganda; International Crisis Group; Médecins Sans Frontières; Oxfam; Human Rights Watch

2 Mar. 2006 Strengthening international law and Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs the maintenance of international peace and security

16 Mar. 2006 Small arms: peace agreements, DDR Charles Nasibu Bilali, Congolese Action Network on Small Peru and weapons control; S/PV.5390 Arms; Amnesty International; Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue; International Action Network on Small Arms; International Peace Academy; Oxfam; Saferworld; Security Council Report; World Vision;

20 June 2006 Strengthening international law and William O’Neill, Chair of UN Task Force on Developing Rule of Argentina the maintenance of international Law Strategies in Peace Operations; Amnesty International; peace and security Human Rights Watch; International Center for Transitional Justice

13 July 2006 Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu of Kosovo

14 Sept. 2006 Darfur Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and American actor George Clooney US

22 Sept. 2006 Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu of Kosovo

25 Oct. 2006 Women and peace and security; Barbara Bangura, NGO coordinator from Sierra Leone and other UK S/PV.5556 NGOs

27 Nov. 2006 Children and armed conflict; Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers; International Save the France S/PV.5573 Children Alliance; Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict

16 Feb. 2007 Security sector reform; S/2007/107 Laurie Nathan, author of South Africa’s Defence White Paper; UK Jeanette Eno of Sierra Leone, expert on women, gender and conflict; Hariyadi Wirawan, member of Indonesia’s Working Group on Intelligence Reform

19 Mar. 2007 Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu of Kosovo UK

3 Apr. 2007 Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu of Kosovo

17 July 2007 Children and armed conflict in the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers France DRC.

1 Oct. 2007 Women in armed conflict in Africa, Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; France with a focus on Darfur, Chad and Bineta Diop, Executive Director of Femmes Africa Solidarité DRC; S/PV.5766

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

13 Dec. 2007 Security Council working methods Anwarul Chowdhury, former Permanent Representative of Slovakia S/2007/784 Bangladesh; Colin Keating, former Permanent Representative of New Zealand; Peter Maurer, Permanent Representative of Switzerland

31 Mar. 2008 Humanitarian and human rights Jabril Ibrahim Abdulle, Somalia Center for Research and UK situation in Somalia; S/2008/355 Dialogue; Amnesty International; Oxfam; Refugees International; Save the Children

11 June 2008 Sexual violence in situations of armed Jasbir Singh Lidder, former UNMIS Force Commander; Julienne UK conflict Lusenge, Coordinator SOFEPADI-RDC (DRC); Victoria Holt, Co-Director of Future of Peace Operations Program at Henry L. Stimson Center

17 June 2008 Darfur Mia Farrow, actress and UNICEF Ambassador, John Prendergast, US Enough Project

25 Nov. 2008 DRC; S/2009/96 SRSG for the DRC; Global Witness; Human Rights Watch; Oxfam; Belgium, France World Vision;

4 Dec. 2008 MINURCAT (Chad/CAR) Human Rights Watch; International Crisis Group; Oxfam

22 Apr. 2009 Children and armed conflict; Representatives from civil society and of NGOs Mexico S/PV.6457

24 June 2009 Sexual violence Jan Egeland, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; Joaquim UK Chiassano, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for LRA- affected areas; Denis Mukwege, Co-founder of General Referral Hopsital of Panzi, DRC; Luz Mendez, Advisory Board President of the National Union of Guatemalan Women

8 October 2009 Residual matters relating to the Presidents of ICTY and ICTR; Assistant Secretary-General Austria International Tribunals for the for Legal Affairs; International Center for Transitional Justice; former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda; International Committee of the Red Cross S/2010/684; S/2009/687; S/PV.6457

5 Nov. 2009 Protection of civilians in armed Colin Keating, Executive Director of Security Council Report; UK conflict Jasbir Singh Lidder, former UNMIS Force Commander; International Rescue Committee

30 Nov. 2009 Human rights and counter-terrorism Mary Robinson and Hina Jilani, members of independent panel of Mexico the International Commission of Jurists on the impact of counter- terrorism on human rights; UN Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; sanctions expert groups

23 Mar. 2010 Institutional capacity building in the Roland Van de Geer, EU Special Envoy for the Great Lakes DRC region; International Crisis Group; International Federation for Human Rights; Open Society Institute

19 Oct. 2010 Women and peace and security: USG for Peacekeeping Operations; Annette Musu Kiawu, Austria, Mexico, UK tenth anniversary of the adoption Vice-Minister of Gender and Development of Liberia; Visaka of resolution 1325 (2000) and Dharmadasa, Chair of the Association of War Affected Women maximizing its impact on the ground and President of the Association of Parents of Servicemen Missing in Action (Sri Lanka); Betty Achan Ogwaro, Chair of Sudanese Women’s Forum; PeaceWomen

8 July 2011 Transatlantic drug trafficking and its UN Office on Drugs and Crime France consequences on regions of transit

7 Feb. 2012 Human rights in the context of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; heads of human rights Portugal, with the peacekeeping operations components of MONUSCO, UNAMA, UNAMI, and UNMIL support of Togo (Council President)

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

8 Mar. 2012 Women’s role in mediation and Betty Bigombe, State Minister for Water Resources of Uganda; Portugal, UK conflict resolution UN Special Adviser on Yemen; Shadia Marhaban, President of the Aceh Women’s League

22 Mar. 2012 Syria Chair Paulo Pinheiro and two other members of the Independent Germany International Commission of Inquiry on Syria established by the Human Rights Council

20 Apr. 2012 Security sector reform in the DRC Emmanuel Kabengele, Congolese Network for Security Sector France Reform and Justice; Mvemba Dizolele, Eastern Congo Initiative; Marta Martinelli, Open Society Foundations

18 May 2012 Women and peace and security: Gender advisers deployed with MINUSTAH, UNAMA, and UNOCI Portugal gender practitioners deployed with UN peacekeeping operations

30 May 2012 Peaceful settlement of disputes, Malcolm Shaw, Senior Fellow at Lauterpacht Centre for Azerbaijan conflict prevention and resolution: International Law at University of Cambridge; Human Rights Mediation, judicial settlement and Watch justice

22 June 2012 Lord’s Resistance Army Head of the UN Office for Central Africa; Benoit Kinalegu, priest, Portugal, UK and Angelique Namaika, both from Dungu, DRC

9 July 2012 Children and armed conflict, with a SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict; Cecile Aptel, Professor France, Germany focus on accountability for persistent at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; NGO representative perpetrators Bijaya Sainju of Nepal

12 Oct. 2012 Syria Chair Paulo Pinheiro and Karen AbuZayd of the Independent Portugal International Commission of Inquiry on Syria established by the Human Rights Council; ASG for Human Rights

4 Dec. 2012 Children and armed conflict: child SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict; ASG for Peacekeeping Portugal protection advisors deployed with UN Operations; MONUSCO child protection advisor; UNMISS child peacekeeping missions protection advisor

15 Feb. 2013 Security dimensions of climate UN Secretary-General; High Representative of the Secretary- Pakistan, UK change General for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States; Minister-in-assistance to the President of the Marshall Islands; Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research; World Bank Vice-President for Sustainable Development

17 May 2013 Women and peace and security: USG for Peacekeeping Operations; UNMISS gender protection Australia, Guatemala gender practitioners deployed adviser; MONUSCO senior gender adviser; MINUSTAH police with UN peacekeeping operations adviser S/2013/481

21 June 2013 Syria Paulo Pinheiro, Chair, and Karen AbuZayd of the Independent Australia International Commission of Inquiry on Syria established by the Human Rights Council

26 July 2013 Syrian National Coalition (SNC) Ahmad Jarba, head of the SNC; Najid Ghadbian, SNC UK representative to the United States, and other SNC representatives

1 Nov. 2013 Human rights and humanitarian Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of France, Rwanda situation in the the CAR Genocide; UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; ASG for Human Rights; Brigitte Balipou, legal expert from the CAR

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

13 Dec. 2013 Protection of journalists Director-General of UNESCO; Prosecutor of the International France, Guatemala Criminal Court; David Rohde, Investigative journalist for Thomson Reuters; Christophe Deloire, Director General of Reporters Without Borders; Frank La Rue, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression; Anne-Marie Capomaccio, Radio France Internationale

17 January 2014 Women’s participation in resolving the Representatives of the Syrian Women’s League, Syrian Women’s Luxembourg, UK Syrian conflict Network and the Syrian Women’s Coalition for Democracy.

14 March 2014 Central African Republic Adama Dieng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the France, Nigeria Prevention of Genocide, Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, Imam Oumar Kobine Layama, President of the CAR Islamic Community, Nicolas Guérékoyame Gbangou, President of the Alliance of Evangelicals of the CAR

14 April 2014 Detention in Syria and the “Caesar” Professor David M. Crane, first Chief Prosecutor of the Special France Report Court for Sierra Leone, and Dr. Stuart J. Hamilton, forensic pathologist on the UK Home Office Register, both members of the inquiry team involved in the preparation of the Caesar report

17 April 2014 Democratic People’s Republic of Michael Kirby (Chair), Marzuki Darasman and Sonja Biserko of Australia, France, US Korea S/2014/501 the Human Rights Council commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; Shin Donghyuk and Hyongseo Lee, two witnesses who participated in the inquiry; member states; Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect; the International Federation for Human Rights; the Working Group on Women, Peace and Security

30 May 2014 Protection of internally displaced Hansjoerg Strohmeyer, Chief of the UN Office for the Australia, Chile persons Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Policy Branch; Chaloka Beyani, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs; representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Women’s Refugee Commission; Alfredo Zamudio, Director of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre/ Norwegian Refugee Council; Costantinos Berhutesfa, Trustee of Africa Humanitarian Action

25 July 2014 Syria Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro and Karen AbuZayd of the Human Rights UK Council’s Commission of Inquiry on Syria

23 January 2015 Human rights in UN peace operations Claudio Cordone of UNSMIL (Libya); Georgette Gagnon of Lithuania UNAMA (Afghanistan); Guillaume Ngefa of MINUSMA (Mali); Giuseppe Calandruccio of MINUSTAH (Haiti); Scott Campbell (former head of the Joint UN Human Rights Office in the DRC); ASG for Human Rights Ivan Šimonović

20 February 2015 Syria Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria Paulo Pinheiro; Karen UK Koning; Abu Zayd; Carla del Ponte; Vitit Muntarbhorn

19 March 2015 Human rights situation, media The leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement and Lithuania freedom and situation of the national member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Mustafa Dzhemilev; minorities in Crimea and in eastern a representative of the Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights, Ukraine Andrey Zubarev

16 April 2015 Chemical weapons attacks in Syria A Syrian doctor who treated victims of the 16 March attack US in Sarmin; Dr. Zaher Sahloul, who heads the Syrian American Medical Society that supports several field hospitals that received victims of chlorine bomb attacks around Idlib in March; Qusai Zakarya, a survivor of the 21 August 2013 chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, outside Damascus

27 April 2015 The issue of combatting the UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova; INTERPOL Secretary- Jordan, France destruction, smuggling and theft of General Jürgen Stock cultural heritage

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

29 April 2015 Chemical weapons attacks in Syria Head of the Syrian National Coalition Khaled Khoja France, UK, US

21 May 2015 Women, peace and security Radhika Coomaraswamy, lead author of the 1325 Global Study; Spain Ambassador Gert Rosenthal who heads the Peacebuilding review; Ameerah Haq, Vice-Chair of the Peace Operations panel

19 June 2015 Human rights situation in Darfur Former COI member Hina Jilani; Abdelrahman Gasim of the US Darfur Bar Association; Hawa Abdalla, an IDP camp leader and activist on women’s issues

26 June 2015 Syria Bassam Alahmad, Violations Documentation Center; Nadim France, Spain Houry, Human Rights Watch; Raed Saleh, Syria Civil Defence (or the “White Helmets”); pre-recorded message from Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura

30 June 2015 Climate change as a threat multiplier Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson; Foreign Minister of Malaysia, Spain for global security the Marshal Islands Tony de Brum; Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad; Pelenise Alofa, Kiribati Climate Action Network; Professor Michael Gerrard, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University

20 July 2015 Israel and Palestine: Gaza Vance Culbert (in person) and Wafaa Karfana (via a pre- Jordan, Malaysia recorded video message) of the Norwegian Refugee Council, an organisation that works on community protection in Gaza; Tania Hary from Gisha, an Israeli organisation focused on protecting the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents; Sara Roy from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University; and Ardi Imseis (via pre-recorded video message) who spoke as an independent expert on accountability issues and was formerly a legal officer for UNRWA

24 August 2015 Vulnerable Groups in Conflict: ISIS’s UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson; Jessica Stern, Chile, US Targeting of LGBT Individuals Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; and affected individuals Subhi Nahas of Syria and “Adnan” of Iraq

21 October 2015 Victims of terrorism and their role in Javier Lesaca, visiting fellow at George Washington University; Spain, US countering violent extremism Maria del Mar Blanco, a victim of the Basque terrorist organisation ETA; Pari Ibrahim, a victim of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham; and Saudatu Mahdi, a representative from the “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign

28 October 2015 Partnership in Humanitarian Action in Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen Jordan Yemen: Challenges and Opportunities O’Brien; Chairman of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, Abdullah Al-Rabiah; all member states

12 November 2015 Syria Members of the Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry UK on Syria: Paulo Pinheiro (Chair) and Karen Koning AbuZayd (Commissioner)

30 November 2015 The impact of the illicit transfer of Khristopher Carlson, Senior Researcher at Small Arms Survey Angola, Lithuania small arms and light weapons and in Geneva; Jorge Rios, Coordinator of the Global Wildlife and poaching in Africa; S/2015/953 Forest Crime Programme at UNODC; and Emmanuel de Merode, chief warden of Virunga National Park in the DRC (via video teleconference)

14 December 2015 Responsibility to Protect and Non- Jennifer Welsh, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Chile, Spain State Actors; S/2016/29 Responsibility to Protect; Edward Luck, International Advisory Board member of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect; and Luis Peral, Senior Analyst of Global and Strategic Affairs at Club de Madrid

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

27 January 2016 The Global Challenge of Accounting Thomas Miller, the Chair of the Board of Commissioners of UK for Missing Persons from Conflict, the International Commission on Missing Persons; Zeid Ra’ad Human Rights Abuses, Disasters, Al Hussein, the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Sister Organized Crime, Migration and other Consuelo Morales, the President of CADHAC (Ciudadanos Involuntary Causes en Apoyo de Derechos Humanos), a Mexican human rights organisation; Vittorio Piscitelli, Italian Government Commissioner on Missing Persons; and David Tolbert, the President of the International Center for Transitional Justice

2 March 2016 Human Rights Components in Peace Jose Maria Aranaz of MONUSCO (DRC); Isha Dyfan of the New Zealand, Uruguay Operations UNAMID (Darfur); Francesco Motta of the UNAMI (Iraq); Guillaume Ngefa of the MINUSMA (Mali); Musa Gassama of MINUSCA (CAR)

18 March 2016 Human Rights Situation in Crimea Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Ukraine Mustafa Dzhemilev, Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for the Affairs of Crimean Tatars; Tetiana Pechonchyk, head of the Board of the Human Rights Information Centre, which documents human rights abuses in Crimea; Olga Skrypnyk, head of the Crimea Human Rights Group and Almenda, which supports the work of civil society promoting human rights; Mark Lagon, the President of Freedom House, who chaired the meeting.

29 March 2016 Food Security and Peace Jose Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and Angola, Spain S/2016/462 Agriculture Organization; Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, a former World Bank economist and now a professor at The New School; Sarah F. Cliffe, Director of New York University’s Center on International Cooperation.

22 April 2016 Water, Peace and Security Kabiné Komara, the former prime minister of Guinea and High Senegal Commissioner of the International Basin Organization of the Senegal River; Assistant-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Miroslav Jenĉa; Caritas International representative Joseph Donnelly

26 April 2016 Western Sahara AU Special Envoy for Western Sahara Joaquim Chissano Angola

6 May 2016 Protection of the Palestinian Legal expert Ardi Imseis, who served in senior policy and legal Egypt, together with civilian population in the Occupied capacities with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Angola, Malaysia, Palestinian Territory Refugees in the Near East; a representative of Yesh Din, an Israeli Senegal, Venezuela organisation that works on issues concerning the rule of law and the duty to protect the Palestinian civilian population in the OPT; a representative from Human Rights Watch

8 August 2016 Aleppo Under Siege: Syria’s Latest Dr. Zaher Sahloul and Dr. Samer Attar, both of the Syrian France, New Zealand, Tragedy Unfolds American Medical Society; Clarissa Ward, Senior International Ukraine, UK, US Correspondent for CNN; Abdullah Kawlhla of the White Helmets http://webtv.un.org/search/aleppo- under-siege-syrias-latest-tragedy- unfolds-security-council-arria- formula-open-meeting-8-august- 2016/5075899474001?term=Aleppo

14 October 2016 Illegal Israeli Settlements: Obstacles Hagai El-Ad, an Israeli human rights activist and the Executive Malaysia, with Angola, to Peace and the Two-State Solution Director of B’Tselem; Lara Friedman, Director of Policy and Egypt, Senegal and Government Relations at Americans for Peace Now; and François Venezuela cohosting http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/ Dubuisson, Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles other-meetingsevents/watch/arria- formula-meeting-of-the-security- council-illegal-israeli-settlements- obstacles-to-peace-and-the-two- state-solution/5171065464001

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21 November 2016 Protection of critical infrastructure Sergiy Semochko, head of the Department for Ukraine against terrorist attacks Counterintelligence and Protection of the National Economy of the Security Service of Ukraine; Frank Westfall, Regional Director of the Office of Infrastructure Protection of the US Department of Homeland Security; and Scott Aaronson, Executive Director for Security and Business Continuity of the Edison Electric Institute

23 November 2016 Cybersecurity and International The meeting was chaired by Félix Sanz, Chairperson of Spain’s Senegal, Spain Peace and Security National Cybersecurity Council, and Ambassador Fodé Seck (Senegal). Participants included, Alfredo Timermans, CEO of Telefónica Internacional USA; Dr. Daniel Stauffacher, President of the ICT4Peace Foundation; Daniel Baer, US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Chair of the Working Group tasked with elaborating cyber confidence- building measures; and Laura Galante, Director of FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence, a cybersecurity company.

5 December 2016 Synergies between Security Council Mr. Yannick Glemarec, UN Women Deputy Executive Director Uruguay Resolutions on Women, Peace for Policy and Programme; Pramila Patten, Chair of the CEDAW and Security and the Convention Task Force on General Recommendation 30; and Maria Victoria on the Elimination of all Forms of Cabrera-Balleza, International Coordinator for the Global Discrimination Against Women Network of Women Peacebuilders (CEDAW)

24 February 2017 Human Rights Components in Peace José Maria Aranaz of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission Senegal, Sweden, Operations in the DRC (MONUSCO); Eugene Nindorera of the UN Mission in Uruguay South Sudan (UNMISS); and Kirsten Young of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)

27 March 2017 Women, Peace and Security and Kyung-wha Kang, Senior Advisor on Policy to the Secretary- Italy, UK Mediation General; Dr Specioza Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe, member of the Panel of the Wise of the AU and coordinator of the Network of African Women Mediators for Peace; Sigrid Kaag, Special Coordinator for Lebanon; and Irene Fellin, President of Women in International Security, Italy

31 March 2017 Hybrid wars as a threat to Patrick Cullen, Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute Ukraine international peace and security of International Affairs (NUPI); Erik Reichborn, Research Fellow at NUPI; Taras Berezovets, Head of the Fund for National Strategies (Ukraine); and Alexander Motyl, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University

10 April 2017 Security Implications of Climate Ambassador Harald Braun of Germany; Walter Kalin, Special Ukraine Change: Sea Level Rise Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of Internally Displaced Persons; Major General Munir http://webtv.un.org/watch/ Muniruzzaman, President of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace security-council-open-arria- and Security Studies formula-meeting-on-security- implications-of-climate-change-sea- level-rise/5392930692001

21 April 2017 Syria Paulo Pinheiro, chair of the Commission of Inquiry; and COI France, UK, US member Karen AbuZayd

8 May 2017 International Cooperation in Criminal Karen Kramer, Senior Drug Control and Crime Prevention Italy Matters within the Peace and Officer at UNODC; David Sharia, Chief of Branch, Counter Security Pillar: the Role of Central Terrorism Executive Directorate; Mike Chibita, Director of Public Authorities Prosecutions in Uganda; Vincente Gonzáles Mota of the Public Prosecution Office of the National Court of Spain; and Maurizio Romanelli of the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Public Prosecution Office of Italy

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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S) THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

16 June 2017 The risk of famine in the conflict- Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed; Franck Bousquet, The A3 (the three African affected areas of north-east Nigeria, Senior Director of the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group of members: Egypt, Ethiopia Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen the World Bank; and Andrea Tamburini, CEO of the NGO Action and Senegal), the Against Hunger Council’s EU delegations (France, Italy, Sweden and the UK), Japan and the US

22 June 2017 Preventing terrorism and violent Ambassador Tekeda Alemu (Ethiopia); Ambassador Sebastiano Ethiopia and Italy, with extremism in the Horn of Africa: Cardi (Italy); Mauro Miedico, Director a.i. of the UNODC Terrorism IGAD and UNODC Enhancing partnership for regional Prevention Branch; Ozonnia Ojielo, UNDP Regional Cluster efforts Director for Governance and Peacebuilding in Africa

5 July 2017 Enhancing the Design Process of Ambassador Ignace Gata Mavita wa Lufuta of Democratic Egypt UN Sanctions: Perspectives from All Republic of the Congo; Ambassador Lewis G. Brown of Liberia; Stakeholders Ambassador Amadu Koroma, DPR of Sierra Leone; Dr. Thomas J. Biersteker, Graduate Institute of International and Development http://webtv.un.org/search/security- Studies, Geneva; Joanna Weschler, Deputy Executive Director of council-arria-formula-open-meeting- Security Council Report on-%E2%80%9Cenhancing- the-design-process-of-un- sanctions-perspectives-from- all-stakeholders%E2%80%9D/ 5492956809001/?term=sanctions& sort=date

21 August 2017 The Vital Role of the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen Senegal Humanitarian Assistance Partners in O’Brien; the Supervisor General of the King Salman Humanitarian the Crisis in Yemen Aid and Relief Center, Abdallah al-Rabeeah

13 October 2017 Attacks on Schools Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Virginia France, Italy, Sweden, Gamba; Joy Bishara, one of the female students kidnapped Uruguay by Boko Haram in 2014; and Zama Neff, co-chair of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack

13 October 2017 Myanmar Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his capacity as the France, UK Chair of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State

13 November 2017 Venuzuela Luis Almagro, Secretary-General of the Organization of American Italy, US States (OAS); Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Joseph Donnelly of Caritas Internationalis; and Julio Henriquez of the Venezuelan human rights NGO Foro Penal

27 November 2017 Partners for Afghanistan: Linking Ambassador Kairat Umarov (Kazakhstan); Ambassador Afghanistan, Germany, Security, Development and Peace in Christoph Heusgen (Germany); Ambassador Mahmoud Saikal Kazakhstan the Central Asian Region (Afghanistan); Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Miroslav Jenča; Barnett Rubin, Associate Director of the Center on International Cooperation; and Jasmin Jahanshahi, Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager, the Aga Khan Foundation, UK

1 December 2017 Protection of Civilians Namie Di Razza, a post-doctoral fellow at the International Uruguay, Senegal, Peace Institute, a think tank that focuses on peace, security and Sweden, UK development issues; Tiffany Easthom, the Executive Director of the Nonviolent Peaceforce, a global non-profit organisation that protects civilians in violent conflict through unarmed strategies; Kudzanai Marivirira, who is a team leader with the Nonviolent Peaceforce in Bentiu, South Sudan; a high-level representative of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees; and David Haeri, the Director of the Evaluation, Policy and Training Division in the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations

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14 December 2017 Climate Change: Preparing for Halbe Zijlstra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, who France, Italy, Japan, security implications of rising may discuss The Hague Declaration on Planetary Security which Sweden and the UK; the temperatures outlines measures to address climate-related security challenges; Netherlands and Peru, and Caitlin Werrel, the co-founder and President of the Center which enter the Council for Climate and Security, a Washington D.C.-based policy institute in 2018; and Germany, the that focuses on climate-related security threats Maldives and Morocco

22 December 2017 Israel/Palestine: Humanitarian Leah Goldin, whose son was killed in combat with Hamas and Ukraine, US Aspects of Missing and Captive whose remains are being held by the group, and Irwin Cotler, Persons in Gaza Founder and Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University

12 February 2018 Upcoming presidential, legislative and Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean- Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial provincial elections scheduled for 23 Pierre Lacroix; President of the DRC Independent National Guinea, France, the December 2018 in the Democratic Electoral Commission Corneille Nangaa; Central African Director Netherlands, Sweden, Republic of the Congo for Human Rights Watch Ida Sawyer; African Regional Director UK, US of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems Rushdi Nackerdien; and representatives from the DRC government, the AU, the Southern African Development Community, the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region, and the EU.

22 February 2018 “Prospects for the two-State solution A statement was delivered on behalf of former US President Kuwait, Bolivia, France for peace” Jimmy Carter by Ambassador Richard Murphy, followed by and Sweden briefings by former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry, former Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees Karen AbuZayd, and Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland.

12 March 2018 “Implementing Syria’s Cessation of Two members of the Syria Negotiation Commission (Hadi al France, the Netherlands, Hostilities: Syria’s Opposition Speaks” Bahra and Fadwa Mahmoud) and a resident of Eastern Ghouta, Poland, the UK speaking through video-link

15 March 2018 Crimea Olena Zerkal, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and Netherlands, Poland, Ayla Bakkalli, a representative of the Crimean Tatars; Germany Sweden, the UK and the http://webtv.un.org/search/the- and the EU also delivered statements as parties with an interest US in partnership with russian-occupation-of-crimea-the- in the issue. Ukraine, which served on role-and-limits-of-the-un-security- the Council in 2016-2017 council-and-good-offices-of-the-un- secretary-general-in-addressing- violations-of-the-un-charter-and- international-law-security-council- arria-formula/5752737771001/

19 March 2018 Human Rights in Syria UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad France, the Netherlands, Zeid al-Hussein Peru, Poland, Sweden, http://webtv.un.org/watch/the- UK, US situation-in-the-middle-east-syria- security-council-arria-formula- meeting/5754853662001/

9 April 2018 “Enhancing synergies between the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime , Under- Peru United Nations and regional and Secretary-General Yury Fedotov; the Head of the Office of subregional organisations to address Counter-Terrorism , Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov; the nexus between terrorism and Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, Permanent Representative of transnational organised crime” Singapore on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ; Ambassador Fatima Mohammed, Permanent Observer http://webtv.un.org/search/ of the AU; Ambassador João Pedro Vale de Almeida, Head of enhancing-synergies-between- the EU Delegation to the UN; Ambassador Maged Abdelfattah the-united-nations-and- Abdelaziz, Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States to regional-and-subregional- the UN; Alison Treppel, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American organizations-to-address-the- Committee against Terrorism of the Organization of American nexus-between-terrorism-and- States; and Rasa Ostrauskaite, Coordinator of Activities to transnational-organized-crime- Address Transnational Threats of the Organization for Security security-council-arria-formula- and Cooperation in Europe meeting/5767177053001/

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7 May 2018 “Ending and Preventing Grave Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Children and Poland in partnership with Violations against Children through Armed Conflict Virginia Gamba; four diplomats from African Côte d’Ivoire, France and Action Plans: Best Practices from countries with experience of action plans [Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, Sweden African States” DRC and Sudan]; Sweden, the chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict; France, one of the co-chairs of http://webtv.un.org/search/ the meeting; and representatives of UNICEF, DPKO, and the ending-and-preventing-grave- Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict violations-against-children-through- action-plans-best-practices-from- african-states-arria-formula- meeting/5781880157001/

13 June 2018 Maritime crime as a threat to Simone Monasebian, the Director of the New York office of Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial international peace and security UNODC; Sagala Ratnayake, Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister Guinea, Ethiopia, the and Minister of Youth Affairs and Southern Development in Sri Netherlands, US http://webtv.un.org/search/maritime- Lanka; Enrico Credendino, Commander of the EU Naval Force crime-as-a-threat-to-international- Mediterranean Operation Sophia; Hajara Yusuf, Public Prosecutor peace-and-security-united-nations- in the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice; and Alan Cole, Head of security-council-open-arria-formula- the UNODC Global Maritime Crime Programme meeting/5797556512001

6 July 2018 The relationship between the Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Stephen Mathias; Bolivia, Côte d’Ivoire, Security Council and the International Judge O-Gon Kwon, President of the Assembly of States Parties; France, the Netherlands, Criminal Court S/2018/810 ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda; Toussaint Muntazini Mukimapa, Peru, Poland, Sweden, UK Special Prosecutor of the Special Criminal Court of the Central http://webtv.un.org/search/unsc-icc- African Republic; and Ambassador Issa Konfourou, Permanent relations-achievements-challenges- Representative of Mali to the UN and-synergies-security-council-arria- formula-meeting/5806377792001

7 September 2018 Syrian Voices on Preventing a Hind Kabawat (Deputy Head of the Syrian Negotiation France, the Netherlands, Deathtrap in Idlib Commission in Geneva), Fadwa Ojyli and Bassma Kodmani (both Poland, Sweden and the members of the Syrian Negotiation Commission), Bahjat Hajjar (a UK http://webtv.un.org/search/security- researcher and activist) and Hadi Al-Bahra (the chief negotiator council-arria-formula-open-meeting- of the Syrian National Coalition delegation in Geneva) syrian-voices-on-preventing-a- deathtrap-in-idlib/5832176303001

10 September 2018 Venezuela as Case Study of Mercedes de Freitas (founder and Executive Director of US Corruption, Peace, and Security Transparencia Venezuela, the Venezuela chapter of Transparency International) and Marshall Billingslea (Assistant Secretary for http://webtv.un.org/search/ Terrorist Financing from the US Department of the Treasury) venezuela-as-case-study-of- corruption-peace-and-security-arria- formula-meeting-of-the-security- council/5833207978001

19 October 2018 Silencing the Guns in Africa Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Representative of the Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial African Union to the United Nations, and Bience Gwanas, the Guinea, Ethiopia, South http://webtv.un.org/search/ Special Advisor of the Secretary-General on Africa Africa and the AU silencing-the-guns-in-africa-how- can-the-un-support-africa-in- creating-a-continent-free-of-conflict- arria-formula-meeting-of-the- security-council-called-by-equatorial- guinea/5851094836001

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22 October 2018 Moving from a Culture of Impunity Rita Lopidia, Executive Director and Co-founder of the EVE Netherlands, Côte to a Culture of Deterrence: The Use Organization for Women Development in South Sudan and d’Ivoire, France and Peru of Sanctions in Addressing Sexual head of the South Sudan Women Coalition for Peace; Pramila Violence in Conflict S/2018/932 Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict; Rebecca Brubaker, Senior Policy http://webtv.un.org/search/ Adviser at the Centre for Policy Research at United Nations moving-from-a-culture-of-impunity- University; Ruben de Koning, the coordinator of the Panel of to-a-culture-of-deterrence-the- Experts assisting the 2374 Mali Sanctions Committee; Hans- use-of-sanctions-in-addressing- Jakob Schindler, the former coordinator of the Analytical Support sexual-violence-in-conflict-arria- and Sanctions Monitoring Team assisting both the sanctions formula-meeting-of-the-security- committee concerning ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida, as well as the council-/5852059174001 sanctions committee concerning the Taliban and associated individuals

26 October 2018 Water, Peace and Security Danilo Türk, chair of the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Bolivia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Peace; UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs the Netherlands; incoming http://webtv.un.org/search/arria- Miroslav Jenča; and Manish Bapna, the Executive Vice President members Belgium, the formula-meeting-on-water-peace- and Managing Director of the World Resources Institute on Dominican Republic, and-security/5854096417001 behalf of the Water, Peace and Security Initiative Germany, and Indonesia; and Italy, a member in 2017 in a split term with the Netherlands

26 October 2018 Protecting Children Born of Sexual Pramila Patten, Special Representative oftheSecretary-Generalon Poland, in partnership Violence in Conflict Zones Sexual Violence in Conflict; Omar Abdi, Deputy Executive with Bolivia, France, of UNICEF; Mohammed Hussein Mohammed Bahr AlUloom, Germany and South http://webtv.un.org/search/open- Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nation; Masud Africa arria-formula-meeting-on-protecting- Bin Momen, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the children-born-of-sexual-violence-in- United Nation; Evelyn Amony, Cofounder and Chairperson of conflict-zones/5854004462001 the Women’s Advocacy Network, Uganda; Charo Mina-Rojas, Human Rights and International Working Group of Proceso de Comunidades Negras; Betty Sunday Ben Kute, Coordinator of Women Monthly Forum, South Sudan (VTC)

7 November 2018 Protection of the Environment During Assistant Secretary-General and head of the UNEP Satya Kuwait, Germany Armed Conflict S/2018/991 Tripathi; Director of International Programs at the Environmental Law Institute and co-founder of the Environmental Peacebuilding http://webtv.un.org/search/ Association Carl Bruch protection-of-the-environment- during-armed-conflict- security-council-arria-formula- meeting/5859031295001

28 November 2018 Syria Paulo Pinheiro, chair of the Syria Commission of Inquiry and COI UK member Hanny Megally

3 December 2018 The situation of persons with Mr. Vladimir Cuk, Executive Director, International Disability Poland, in partnership disabilities in armed conflict Alliance; Ms. Shanelle Hall, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF; with Côte d’Ivoire, Ms. Catalina Devandas, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Germany, Kuwait and http://webtv.un.org/search/ Persons with Disabilities (VTC); Prof. Michael Stein, Harvard Law Peru the-situation-of-persons-with- School; Mr. Hansjoerg Strohmeyer, Chief of Policy, Office for the disabilities-in-armed-conflict- Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs security-council-open-arria-formula- meeting/5975384881001

10 December 2018 Raising the effectiveness of atrocity Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Poland, in partnership crimes prevention: role of the United Affairs and UN Legal Counsel; Samantha Capicotto, Director with Belgium, Côte Nations Security Council and its of Policy and Planning of the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and d’Ivoire, Germany, Kuwait Members Reconciliation and Program Director of the Global Edition of the and Peru Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention http://webtv.un.org/search/ arria-formula-meeting-on-raising- effectiveness-of-atrocity-crimes- prevention-role-of-the-united- nations-security-council-and-its- members/5977873784001

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