A/63/2 United Nations Report of the Security Council 1 August 2007-31 July 2008 General Assembly Official Records Sixty-third Session Supplement No. 2 General Assembly Official Records Sixty-third Session Supplement No. 2 Report of the Security Council 1 August 2007-31 July 2008 United Nations • New York, 2008 A/63/2 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 51 I. Resolutions adopted by the Security Council during the period from 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008................................................................... 51 II. Statements made and/or issued by the President of the Security Council during the period from 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008 ............................................... 55 III. Official communiqués issued by the Security Council during the period from 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008 ................................................................ 58 IV. Monthly assessments by former Presidents of the work of the Security Council for the period from 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008 ............................................... 61 V. Meetings of the Security Council held during the period from 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008 62 VI. Meetings of the Security Council and troop-contributing countries held during the period from 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008 ............................................... 87 VII. Meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council held during the period from 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008 .................................................... 88 VIII. Annual reports of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council............................ 91 A. Annual reports of committees ................................................ 91 B. Annual reports of working groups ............................................. 91 IX. Reports of panels and monitoring mechanisms....................................... 92 X. Reports of Security Council missions .............................................. 93 XI. Peacekeeping operations established, functioning or terminated, 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008................................................................... 94 XII. Assistance missions and offices established, functioning or terminated, 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008................................................................... 95 XIII. Reports of the Secretary-General issued during the period from 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008................................................................... 96 XIV. Summary statements by the Secretary-General on matters of which the Security Council was seized during the period from 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008 .......................... 102 XV. Notes by the President of the Security Council issued during the period from 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008 ................................................................ 103 08-57742 iii Part II Questions considered by the Security Council under its responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security 105 1. Items relating to the situation in the Middle East ..................................... 105 A. The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question ................. 105 B. The situation in the Middle East .............................................. 112 1. United Nations Disengagement Observer Force ............................. 112 2. United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) ........................................................... 114 3. Security Council resolution 1559 (2004) ................................... 120 4. Security Council resolution 1595 (2005) ................................... 122 2. The situation in Cyprus.......................................................... 124 3. The situation concerning Western Sahara ........................................... 127 4. The situation in Timor-Leste ..................................................... 129 5. The situation in Liberia.......................................................... 130 6. The situation in Somalia ......................................................... 132 7. Items relating to the situation in the former Yugoslavia................................ 135 A. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina ....................................... 135 B. Security Council resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998), 1203 (1998), 1239 (1999) and 1244 (1999) ........................................................... 136 C. 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 .......................................... 138 8. Items relating to the situation concerning Rwanda.................................... 140 A. The situation concerning Rwanda ............................................. 140 B. International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994............................ 141 9. 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 International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994 .......................................................... 143 10. The situation in Georgia ......................................................... 145 iv 11. The question concerning Haiti .................................................... 148 12. The situation in Burundi ......................................................... 149 13. The situation in Afghanistan...................................................... 151 14. The situation in Sierra Leone ..................................................... 153 15. The situation in the Great Lakes region............................................. 155 16. The situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo ........................ 157 17. The situation between Eritrea and Ethiopia.......................................... 160 18. Children and armed conflict ...................................................... 163 19. The situation in Guinea-Bissau ................................................... 165 20. Protection of civilians in armed conflict ............................................ 167 21. Small arms .................................................................... 168 22. Women and peace and security.................................................... 169 23. Briefing by the President of the International Court of Justice .......................... 170 24. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries pursuant to resolution 1353 (2001), annex II, sections A and B ................................. 171 A. United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus................................... 171 B. United Nations Disengagement Observer Force.................................. 171 C. United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon....................................... 171 D. United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara ..................... 171 E. United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia .................................... 172 F. United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ....... 172 G. United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea .................................. 172 H. United Nations Mission in Liberia............................................. 172 I. United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire ...................................... 172 J. United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti ................................... 173 K. United Nations Mission in the Sudan .......................................... 173 L. African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur ........................ 173 25. Briefing by the Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ..................................................................... 174 26. Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts ...................... 175 27. The situation in Côte d’Ivoire .................................................... 180 28. Security Council mission .......................................................