A/61/2 United Nations Report of the Security Council 1 August 2005-31 July 2006 General Assembly Official Records Sixty-first Session Supplement No. 2 (A/61/2) General Assembly Official Records Sixty-first Session Supplement No. 2 (A/61/2) Report of the Security Council 1 August 2005-31 July 2006 United Nations • New York, 2006 A/61/2 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 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 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006................................................................... 23 II. Statements made by the President of the Security Council during the period from 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006 .................................................... 27 III. Official communiqués issued by the Security Council during the period from 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006 ................................................................ 30 IV. Monthly assessments by former Presidents of the work of the Security Council for the period from 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006 ............................................... 34 V. Meetings of the Security Council held during the period from 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006 35 VI. Annual reports of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council............................ 62 A. Annual reports of committees ................................................ 62 B. Annual reports of working groups ............................................. 62 VII. Meetings of the Security Council and troop-contributing countries held during the period from 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006 ............................................... 63 VIII. Meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council held during the period from 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006 .................................................... 64 IX. Panels and monitoring mechanisms and their reports.................................. 67 X. Security Council missions and their reports ......................................... 68 XI. Peacekeeping operations established, functioning or terminated, 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006................................................................... 69 XII. Assistance missions and offices established, functioning or terminated, 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006................................................................... 71 XIII. Reports of the Secretary-General issued during the period from 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006................................................................... 72 XIV. Summary statements by the Secretary-General on matters of which the Security Council was seized during the period from 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006 .......................... 77 XV. Notes by the President of the Security Council issued during the period from 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006 ................................................................ 78 iii Part II Questions considered by the Security Council under its responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security 1. Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan ...................................... 81 2. Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts ...................... 87 3. The situation concerning Iraq..................................................... 96 4. The situation in Guinea-Bissau ................................................... 100 5. The situation in Afghanistan...................................................... 101 6. Items relating to the situation in the Middle East ..................................... 103 A. The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question ................. 103 B. The situation in the Middle East .............................................. 111 1. Security Council resolution 1595 (2005) ................................... 111 2. Security Council resolution 1559 (2004) ................................... 113 3. United Nations Disengagement Observer Force ............................. 114 4. United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and developments in the Israel-Lebanon sector ................................................................ 117 7. The situation in Timor-Leste ..................................................... 123 8. The situation in Burundi ......................................................... 126 9. The situation in Côte d’Ivoire .................................................... 128 10. The situation in Sierra Leone ..................................................... 132 11. The situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo ........................ 134 12. Strengthening cooperation with troop-contributing countries ........................... 138 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, sections A and B ........................................................... 138 B. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Mission in Liberia pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, sections A and B .................................................................. 138 C. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Mission in the Sudan pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, sections A and B .................................................................. 138 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, sections A and B ............................... 139 E. 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, sections A and B............................................. 139 iv F. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Operation in Burundi pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, sections A and B .................................................................. 139 G. 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, sections A and B ........................................................... 139 H. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, sections A and B ........................................................... 140 I. 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, sections A and B .................................................................. 140 J. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, sections A and B ........................................................... 140 K. 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, sections A and B .................................................................. 141 L. 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, sections A and B ........................................................... 141 M. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, sections A and B ........................................................... 141 13. The situation between Eritrea and Ethiopia.......................................... 142 14. Threats to international peace and security .......................................... 144 15. The situation in Liberia.......................................................... 145 16. The role of civil society in conflict prevention and the pacific settlement of disputes ....... 147 17. Items relating to the situation in the former Yugoslavia................................ 148 A. 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 ................................................................ 148 B. Security Council resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998), 1203 (1998), 1239 (1999) and 1244 (1999) ..............................................................