ADVANCE VERSION Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council 22nd Supplement 2019 Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs - Security Council Affairs Division Security Council Practices and Charter Research Branch Part I Consideration of questions under the responsibility of the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security 1 Part I – Overview of Security Council Activities in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security Repertoire website: http://www.un.org/en/sc/repertoire Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council ADVANCE VERSION 22nd Supplement (2019) Contents Consideration of questions under the responsibility of the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security ...................................................................................................... 1 Africa ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 1. The situation concerning Western Sahara ........................................................................................... 4 2. The situation in Somalia ..................................................................................................................... 9 3. The situation in Burundi ................................................................................................................... 18 4. The situation in the Great Lakes region ............................................................................................ 22 5. The situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo .................................................... 26 6. The situation in the Central African Republic .................................................................................. 33 7. The situation in Guinea-Bissau ......................................................................................................... 43 8. Central African region ...................................................................................................................... 47 9. Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan and South Sudan .................................................... 51 10. Peace consolidation in West Africa ................................................................................................ 67 11. Peace and security in Africa............................................................................................................ 72 12. The situation in Libya ..................................................................................................................... 84 13. The situation in Mali ....................................................................................................................... 92 Americas ............................................................................................................................................... 99 14. The question concerning Haiti ........................................................................................................ 99 15. Identical letters dated 19 January 2016 from the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council (S/2016/53) ......................................................................................................................................... 105 16. The situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ................................................................ 109 Asia. .................................................................................................................................................... 117 17. The situation in Afghanistan ......................................................................................................... 117 18. The situation in Myanmar ............................................................................................................. 125 Europe ................................................................................................................................................. 128 19. The situation in Cyprus ................................................................................................................. 128 20. Items relating to the situation in the former Yugoslavia ............................................................... 132 A. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina ...................................................................................... 132 B. Security Council resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998), 1203 (1998), 1239 (1999) and 1244 (1999) 136 21. Items relating to Ukraine .............................................................................................................. 141 2 Part I – Overview of Security Council Activities in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security Repertoire website: http://www.un.org/en/sc/repertoire Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council ADVANCE VERSION 22nd Supplement (2019) A. Letter dated 28 February 2014 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2014/136) ......................................... 141 B. Letter dated 13 April 2014 from the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2014/264) .............................. 144 Middle East ......................................................................................................................................... 149 22. The situation in the Middle East ................................................................................................... 149 23. The situation between Iraq and Kuwait ........................................................................................ 172 24. The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question ........................................... 175 25. The situation concerning Iraq ....................................................................................................... 183 Thematic issues ................................................................................................................................... 188 26. United Nations peacekeeping operations ...................................................................................... 188 27. International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals .......................................................... 197 28. Children and armed conflict .......................................................................................................... 201 29. Protection of civilians in armed conflict ....................................................................................... 209 30. Women and peace and security ..................................................................................................... 222 31. Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts ............................................. 238 32. Briefings ........................................................................................................................................ 246 33. Security Council mission .............................................................................................................. 251 34. The promotion and strengthening of the rule of law in the maintenance of international peace and security ................................................................................................................................................ 254 35. Items relating to non-proliferation ................................................................................................ 259 A. Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction ........................................................................ 259 B. Non-proliferation ............................................................................................................................ 262 C. Non-proliferation/Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ........................................................... 269 36. Peacebuilding and sustaining peace .............................................................................................. 272 37. Threats to international peace and security ................................................................................... 277 38. Maintenance of international peace and security .......................................................................... 285 39. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security ...................................................................................... 292 3 Part I – Overview of Security Council Activities in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security Repertoire website: http://www.un.org/en/sc/repertoire Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council ADVANCE VERSION 22nd Supplement (2019) Africa 1. The situation concerning Western Sahara During 2019, the Security Council held two meetings and adopted two resolutions on the situation concerning Western Sahara. The two meetings under this item were convened to adopt a resolution, namely resolutions 2468 (2019) and 2494 (2019), both extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).1 In 2019, the Council also met twice