Arria-Formula Meetings, 1992-2018 - Security Council Report · 3 Mar. 1993 Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina 24 Mar. 1993 Former Yugoslavia

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Arria-Formula Meetings, 1992-2018This 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 THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED

INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)

Mar. 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina; S/1999/286; ST/PSCA/1/Add.12

Fra Jozo Zovko (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Venezuela

18 Dec. 1992 Persecution of Shiite ‘Marsh Arabs’ in Iraq

M.P. Emma Nicholson (UK) Venezuela, Hungary

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 the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation in South Africa

Venezuela

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

12 Aug. 1993 Bosnia and Herzegovina OIC 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 Assistance Missions

Antonio Napolitano, Sanctions Coordinator of theEU 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 (OAU)

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 assassination of President Hosni Mubarak

Deputy Foreign Minister of Ethiopia

21 Dec. 1995 African issues, with focus on Ethiopia and Sudan

Salim Salim, OAU Secretary-General

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

Foreign Minister of Sudan

19 Jan. 1996 Great Lakes region—Burundi and Rwanda

Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania and mediator for the Arusha peace negotiations

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

29 Feb. 1996 General Assembly Working Group on UN Reform

General Assembly President

20 Mar. 1996 Ethiopia and Sudan—attempted assassination of President Hosni Mubarak

OAU representative in New York

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

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

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

Italy

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 stabilization

Mark Malloch-Brown, Vice-President of the World Bank; USG for Humanitarian Affairs

UK

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

Chile

23 Sept. 1996 Great Lakes region—Burundi and Rwanda


Botswana

27 Sept. 1996 Angola Foreign Minister of Angola Botswana

30 Sept. 1996 International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)/International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

Richard Goldstone, ICTY/ICTR Prosecutor US

2 Oct. 1996 Liberia Foreign Minister of Nigeria Botswana

3 Oct. 1996 Middle East—Middle East peace process, Iraq, Libya

Ahmed Abdel-Meguid, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States

Egypt

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 war on children

Botswana

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

Botswana

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

5 Mar. 1997 Occupied Arab territories—East Jerusalem

Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Egypt

24 Apr. 1997 Children abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army

Kintu Musoke, Prime Minister of Uganda UK






19 May 1997 Great Lakes region—Burundi and Rwanda


Kenya

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

Kenya

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, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria)

Guinea-Bissau

2 Oct. 1997 UN Human Rights Investigation Team for the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Foreign Minister of the DRC Guinea-Bissau

15 Oct. 1997 Background on ”Arria-formula” meetings

Diego Arria, former Permanent Representative of Venezuela Portugal

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

Guinea-Bissau

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

Gambia

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

Kenya

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 Region

UK

15 Apr. 1998 Lincoln Agreement, signed in Bougainville

John Kaputin, Special Envoy of Papua New Guinea Japan

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

Russia

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 the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries

Portugal

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

Kenya

5 Oct. 1998 African issues, with a focus on the DRC

Salim Salim, OAU Secretary-General Kenya

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 Rwanda; S/1999/53


Gabon






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 Ethiopia; S/1999/304; S/1999/624

Vice Foreign Minister of Ethiopia Namibia

22 Mar. 1999 Situation between Eritrea and Ethiopia; S/1999/325; S/1999/624

Foreign Minister of Eritrea Namibia

3 June 1999 Situation between Eritrea and Ethiopia; S/1999/624

Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso and representative of the Chair of the OAU

Gabon

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

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

France

10 Apr. 2000 DRC Parliamentarians for Global Action Jamaica

12 Apr. 2000 Protection of civilians in armed conflict; S/2000/707; S/PV.4130

CARE International; Médecins Sans Frontières; Oxfam Netherlands

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

25 July 2000 Children and armed conflict;S/2000/1053; S/PV.4176

Sub-Committee on Children and Armed Conflict; World Vision; Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children

Namibia

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

23 Oct. 2000 Women and peace and security;S/PV.4208

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children; OAU 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

Jamaica

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

France

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

Secretary General of NATO Norway

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

Jamaica

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

France

30 Apr. 2001 Women and peace and security

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

France

29 May 2001 Safety and security of UN personnel;S/PV.4323; S/PV.4340

President of the Federation of International Civil Servants Associations

Bangladesh






19 July 2001 DRC Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; Oxfam France

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

Singapore

17 Oct. 2001 Liberia; S/2001/1298 Amnesty International; Global Witness; Médecins Sans Frontières; Oxfam

Jamaica

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

Jamaica

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

Colombia

14 Nov. 2001 Liberia Foreign Minister of Liberia Singapore

19 Dec. 2001 Situation of women in Afghanistan; S/PV.4439

Delegations participating in “Equality Now” seminar Jamaica

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

5 Mar. 2002 Angola Human Rights Watch; Médecins Sans Frontières; Oxfam; Save the Children

Singapore

8 Mar. 2002 Situation of women in Sierra Leone; S/PV.4492

Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women UK

19 Mar. 2002 Women and children affected by conflicts in Mano River Union countries

Mano River Women’s Peace Network; UN Development Fund for Women, represented by Elisabeth Rehn, former UN official, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian political figure who was later elected President of Liberia

Singapore

22 Mar. 2002 Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Sierra Leone

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; International Centre for Transitional Justice

Ireland

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

7 May 2002 Women and peace and security in the context of the Middle East

Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shamas, Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling in East Jerusalem; Terry Greenblat, Bat Shalom

Norway

21 May 2002 Mano River Union region Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; Médecins Sans Frontières

France

25 June 2002 DRC Amnesty International

6 Oct. 2002 Afghanistan

23 Oct. 2002 Women and peace and security;S/2003/820

Angelina Acheng Atyam, Chair of Concerned Parents Association 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

Singapore

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

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






13 Jan. 2003 Children and armed conflict; S/PV.4684

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children; Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers; Human Rights Watch; Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict; CARE International; Save the Children

Mexico, with France

9 Apr. 2003 Humanitarian aid situation in Iraq Amnesty International; CARE International; Médecins Sans Frontières; Oxfam; Save the Children

Pakistan

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

UK

3 November 2003The meeting was held in Kabul

Afghanistan—human rights; S/2003/1074

Afghan Independent Human RightsCommission (AIHRC) and representatives of other civil society groups

Germany

13 Jan. 2004 Children and armed conflict S/PV.4898

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers; Human Rights Watch; Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict; CARE International; World Vision; Save the Children

France

22 Jan. 2004 Role of the UN in post-conflict national reconciliation; S/PV.4903

Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; International Center for Transitional Justice; International Peace Academy

Chile

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

Germany

16 June 2004 Security Council mission to West Africa

Amnesty International; CARE International; Human Rights Watch; Oxfam; Greenpeace; Refugees International; Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children; Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict; International Crisis Group

UK

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

Chile

21 Oct. 2004 Women and peace and security Mano River Women’s Peace Network; International Rescue 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

Benin

5 Nov. 2004 Security Council mission to Central Africa

Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; Refugees International

19 Nov. 2004The meeting was held in Nairobi, Kenya

Sudan Sudan Production Aid; Community Development Association; South Sudan Development Initiative; Sudanese Women’s Voice for Peace; Sudan Advocacy Coalition; South Sudan Law Society; CARE International; Christian Aid; New Sudan Indigenous NGO Network; Save the Children

US

16 Feb. 2005 Children and armed conflict; S/2005/399

Backward Society Education (Nepal); CARE International; 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

France

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

Argentina

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 peace and security

Amnesty International; CARE International; Catholic Relief 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;S/2005/763

Basma Fahkri of Hanaa Edwar (Iraq); Goretti Ndacayisaba of Dushirehamwe (Burundi); NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security; Swanee Hunt of Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace

Denmark

22 Nov. 2005 Protection of civilians in armed conflict

CARE International, International Rescue Committee, Oxfam, Save the Children

UK

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 the maintenance of international peace and security

Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs

16 Mar. 2006 Small arms: peace agreements, DDR and weapons control; S/PV.5390

Charles Nasibu Bilali, Congolese Action Network on Small Arms; Amnesty International; Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue; International Action Network on Small Arms; International Peace Academy; Oxfam; Saferworld; Security Council Report; World Vision;

Peru

20 June 2006 Strengthening international law and the maintenance of international peace and security

William O’Neill, Chair of UN Task Force on Developing Rule of Law Strategies in Peace Operations; Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; International Center for Transitional Justice

Argentina

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; S/PV.5556

Barbara Bangura, NGO coordinator from Sierra Leone and other NGOs

UK

27 Nov. 2006 Children and armed conflict; S/PV.5573

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers; International Save the Children Alliance; Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict

France

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

UK

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 DRC.

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers France

1 Oct. 2007 Women in armed conflict in Africa, with a focus on Darfur, Chad and DRC; S/PV.5766

Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Bineta Diop, Executive Director of Femmes Africa Solidarité

France

13 Dec. 2007 Security Council working methods S/2007/784

Anwarul Chowdhury, former Permanent Representative of Bangladesh; Colin Keating, former Permanent Representative of New Zealand; Peter Maurer, Permanent Representative of Switzerland

Slovakia






31 Mar. 2008 Humanitarian and human rights situation in Somalia; S/2008/355

Jabril Ibrahim Abdulle, Somalia Center for Research and Dialogue; Amnesty International; Oxfam; Refugees International; Save the Children

UK

11 June 2008 Sexual violence in situations of armed conflict

Jasbir Singh Lidder, former UNMIS Force Commander; Julienne Lusenge, Coordinator SOFEPADI-RDC (DRC); Victoria Holt, Co-Director of Future of Peace Operations Program at Henry L. Stimson Center

UK

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

US

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

Belgium, France

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

22 Apr. 2009 Children and armed conflict;S/PV.6457

Representatives from civil society and of NGOs Mexico

24 June 2009 Sexual violence Jan Egeland, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; Joaquim 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

UK

8 October 2009 Residual matters relating to the International Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda; S/2010/684; S/2009/687; S/PV.6457

Presidents of ICTY and ICTR; Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs; International Center for Transitional Justice; International Committee of the Red Cross

Austria

5 Nov. 2009 Protection of civilians in armed conflict

Colin Keating, Executive Director of Security Council Report; Jasbir Singh Lidder, former UNMIS Force Commander; International Rescue Committee

UK

30 Nov. 2009 Human rights and counter-terrorism Mary Robinson and Hina Jilani, members of independent panel of 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

Mexico

23 Mar. 2010 Institutional capacity building in the DRC

Roland Van de Geer, EU Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region; International Crisis Group; International Federation for Human Rights; Open Society Institute

19 Oct. 2010 Women and peace and security: tenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000) and maximizing its impact on the ground

USG for Peacekeeping Operations; Annette Musu Kiawu, Vice-Minister of Gender and Development of Liberia; Visaka Dharmadasa, Chair of the Association of War Affected Women and President of the Association of Parents of Servicemen Missing in Action (Sri Lanka); Betty Achan Ogwaro, Chair of Sudanese Women’s Forum; PeaceWomen

Austria, Mexico, UK

8 July 2011 Transatlantic drug trafficking and its consequences on regions of transit

UN Office on Drugs and Crime France

7 Feb. 2012 Human rights in the context of peacekeeping operations

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; heads of human rights components of MONUSCO, UNAMA, UNAMI, and UNMIL

Portugal, with the support of Togo (Council President)

8 Mar. 2012 Women’s role in mediation and conflict resolution

Betty Bigombe, State Minister for Water Resources of Uganda; UN Special Adviser on Yemen; Shadia Marhaban, President of the Aceh Women’s League

Portugal, UK






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

Germany

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

France

18 May 2012 Women and peace and security: gender practitioners deployed with UN peacekeeping operations

Gender advisers deployed with MINUSTAH, UNAMA, and UNOCI Portugal

30 May 2012 Peaceful settlement of disputes, conflict prevention and resolution: Mediation, judicial settlement and justice

Malcolm Shaw, Senior Fellow at Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at University of Cambridge; Human Rights Watch

Azerbaijan

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

Portugal, UK

9 July 2012 Children and armed conflict, with a focus on accountability for persistent perpetrators

SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict; Cecile Aptel, Professor at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; NGO representative Bijaya Sainju of Nepal

France, Germany

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

Portugal

4 Dec. 2012 Children and armed conflict: child protection advisors deployed with UN peacekeeping missions

SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict; ASG for Peacekeeping Operations; MONUSCO child protection advisor; UNMISS child protection advisor

Portugal

15 Feb. 2013 Security dimensions of climate change

UN Secretary-General; High Representative of the Secretary-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

Pakistan, UK

17 May 2013 Women and peace and security: gender practitioners deployed with UN peacekeeping operations; S/2013/481

USG for Peacekeeping Operations; UNMISS gender protection adviser; MONUSCO senior gender adviser; MINUSTAH police adviser

Australia, Guatemala

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

Australia

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

UK

1 Nov. 2013 Human rights and humanitarian situation in the the CAR

Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide; UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; ASG for Human Rights; Brigitte Balipou, legal expert from the CAR

France, Rwanda

13 Dec. 2013 Protection of journalists Director-General of UNESCO; Prosecutor of the International 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

France, Guatemala

17 January 2014 Women’s participation in resolving the Syrian conflict

Representatives of the Syrian Women’s League, Syrian Women’s Network and the Syrian Women’s Coalition for Democracy.

Luxembourg, UK






14 March 2014 Central African Republic Adama Dieng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the 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

France, Nigeria

14 April 2014 Detention in Syria and the “Caesar” Report

Professor David M. Crane, first Chief Prosecutor of the Special 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

France

17 April 2014 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea S/2014/501

Michael Kirby (Chair), Marzuki Darasman and Sonja Biserko of 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

Australia, France, US

30 May 2014 Protection of internally displaced persons

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer, Chief of the UN Office for the 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

Australia, Chile

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

UK

23 January 2015 Human rights in UN peace operations Claudio Cordone (UNSMIL); Georgette Gagnon (UNAMA); Guillaume Ngefa (MINUSMA); Giuseppe Calandruccio (MINUSTAH); Scott Campbell (former head of the Joint UN Human Rights Office in the DRC); Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Šimonović

Lithuania

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

UK

19 March 2015 Human rights situation, media freedom and situation of the national minorities in Crimea and in eastern Ukraine

The leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement and member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Mustafa Dzhemilev; a representative of the Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights, Andrey Zubarev

Lithuania

16 April 2015 Chemical weapons attacks in Syria A Syrian doctor who treated victims of the 16 March attack 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

US

27 April 2015 The issue of combatting the destruction, smuggling and theft of cultural heritage

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova; INTERPOL Secretary-General Jürgen Stock

Jordan, France

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; Ambassador Gert Rosenthal who heads the Peacebuilding review; Ameerah Haq, Vice-Chair of the Peace Operations panel

Spain

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

US






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

France, Spain

30 June 2015 Climate change as a threat multiplier for global security

Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson; Foreign Minister of 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

Malaysia, Spain

20 July 2015 Israel and Palestine: Gaza Vance Culbert (in person) and Wafaa Karfana (via a pre-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

Jordan, Malaysia

24 August 2015 Vulnerable Groups in Conflict: ISIS’s Targeting of LGBT Individuals

UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson; Jessica Stern, Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; and affected individuals Subhi Nahas of Syria and “Adnan” of Iraq

Chile, US

21 October 2015 Victims of terrorism and their role in countering violent extremism

Javier Lesaca, visiting fellow at George Washington University; 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

Spain, US

28 October 2015 Partnership in Humanitarian Action in Yemen: Challenges and Opportunities

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen O’Brien; Chairman of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, Abdullah Al-Rabiah; all member states

Jordan

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

UK

30 November 2015 The impact of the illicit transfer of small arms and light weapons and poaching in Africa; S/2015/953

Khristopher Carlson, Senior Researcher at Small Arms Survey in Geneva; Jorge Rios, Coordinator of the Global Wildlife and Forest Crime Programme at UNODC; and Emmanuel de Merode, chief warden of Virunga National Park in the DRC (via video teleconference)

Angola, Lithuania

14 December 2015 Responsibility to Protect and Non-State Actors; S/2016/29

Jennifer Welsh, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the 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

Chile, Spain

27 January 2016 The Global Challenge of Accounting for Missing Persons from Conflict, Human Rights Abuses, Disasters, Organized Crime, Migration and other Involuntary Causes

Thomas Miller, the Chair of the Board of Commissioners of the International Commission on Missing Persons; Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Sister Consuelo Morales, the President of CADHAC (Ciudadanos 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

UK






2 March 2016 Human Rights Components in Peace Operations

Jose Maria Aranaz of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Isha Dyfan of the AU/UN Hybrid Operation for Darfur; Francesco Motta of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq; Guillaume Ngefa of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali; Musa Gassama of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic.

New Zealand, Uruguay

18 March 2016 Human Rights Situation in Crimea Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; 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.

Ukraine

29 March 2016 Food Security and Peace S/2016/462

Jose Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and 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.

Angola, Spain

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

Senegal

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

6 May 2016 Protection of the Palestinian civilian population in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Legal expert Ardi Imseis, who served in senior policy and legal capacities with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; a representative of Yesh Din, an Israeli 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

Egypt, together with Angola, Malaysia, Senegal, Venezuela

8 August 2016 Aleppo Under Siege: Syria’s Latest Tragedy Unfolds

http://webtv.un.org/search/aleppo-under-siege-syrias-latest-tragedy-unfolds-security-council-arria-formula-open-meeting-8-august-2016/5075899474001?term=Aleppo

Dr. Zaher Sahloul and Dr. Samer Attar, both of the Syrian American Medical Society; Clarissa Ward, Senior International Correspondent for CNN; Abdullah Kawlhla of the White Helmets

France, New Zealand, Ukraine, UK, US

14 October 2016 Illegal Israeli Settlements: Obstacles to Peace and the Two-State Solution

http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/other-meetingsevents/watch/arria-formula-meeting-of-the-security-council-illegal-israeli-settlements-obstacles-to-peace-and-the-two-state-solution/5171065464001

Hagai El-Ad, an Israeli human rights activist and the Executive Director of B’Tselem; Lara Friedman, Director of Policy and Government Relations at Americans for Peace Now; and François Dubuisson, Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles

Malaysia, with Angola, Egypt, Senegal and Venezuela cohosting

21 November 2016 Protection of critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks

Sergiy Semochko, head of the Department for 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

Ukraine






23 November 2016 Cybersecurity and International Peace and Security

The meeting was chaired by Félix Sanz, Chairperson of Spain’s 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.

Senegal, Spain

5 December 2016 Synergies between Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

Mr. Yannick Glemarec, UN Women Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme; Pramila Patten, Chair of the CEDAW Task Force on General Recommendation 30; and Maria Victoria Cabrera-Balleza, International Coordinator for the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders

Uruguay

24 February 2017 Human Rights Components in Peace Operations

José Maria Aranaz of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO); Eugene Nindorera of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS); and Kirsten Young of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)

Senegal, Sweden, Uruguay

27 March 2017 Women, Peace and Security and Mediation

Kyung-wha Kang, Senior Advisor on Policy to the Secretary-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

Italy, UK

31 March 2017 Hybrid wars as a threat to international peace and security

Patrick Cullen, Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute 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

Ukraine

10 April 2017 Security Implications of Climate Change: Sea Level Rise

http://webtv.un.org/watch/security-council-open-arria-formula-meeting-on-security-implications-of-climate-change-sea-level-rise/5392930692001

Ambassador Harald Braun of Germany; Walter Kalin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of Internally Displaced Persons; Major General Munir Muniruzzaman, President of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies

Ukraine

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

France, UK, US

8 May 2017 International Cooperation in Criminal Matters within the Peace and Security Pillar: the Role of Central Authorities

Karen Kramer, Senior Drug Control and Crime Prevention Officer at UNODC; David Sharia, Chief of Branch, Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate; Mike Chibita, Director of Public 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

Italy

16 June 2017 The risk of famine in the conflict-affected areas of north-east Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen

Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed; Franck Bousquet, Senior Director of the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group of the World Bank; and Andrea Tamburini, CEO of the NGO Action Against Hunger

The A3 (the three African members: Egypt, Ethiopia and Senegal), the Council’s EU delegations (France, Italy, Sweden and the UK), Japan and the US






22 June 2017 Preventing terrorism and violent extremism in the Horn of Africa: Enhancing partnership for regional efforts

Ambassador Tekeda Alemu (Ethiopia); Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi (Italy); Mauro Miedico, Director a.i. of the UNODC Terrorism Prevention Branch; Ozonnia Ojielo, UNDP Regional Cluster Director for Governance and Peacebuilding in Africa

Ethiopia and Italy, with IGAD and UNODC

5 July 2017 Enhancing the Design Process of UN Sanctions: Perspectives from All Stakeholders

http://webtv.un.org/search/security-council-arria-formula-open-meeting-on-%E2%80%9Cenhancing-the-design-process-of-un-sanctions-perspectives-from-all-stakeholders%E2%80%9D/5492956809001/?term=sanctions&sort=date

Ambassador Ignace Gata Mavita wa Lufuta of Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ambassador Lewis G. Brown of Liberia; Ambassador Amadu Koroma, DPR of Sierra Leone; Dr. Thomas J. Biersteker, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; Joanna Weschler, Deputy Executive Director of Security Council Report

Egypt

21 August 2017 The Vital Role of the UN’s Humanitarian Assistance Partners in the Crisis in Yemen

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen O’Brien; the Supervisor General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, Abdallah al-Rabeeah

Senegal

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

France, Italy, Sweden, Uruguay

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

France, UK

13 November 2017 Venuzuela Luis Almagro, Secretary-General of the Organization of American 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

Italy, US

27 November 2017 Partners for Afghanistan: Linking Security, Development and Peace in the Central Asian Region

Ambassador Kairat Umarov (Kazakhstan); Ambassador Christoph Heusgen (Germany); Ambassador Mahmoud Saikal (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

Afghanistan, Germany, Kazakhstan

1 December 2017 Protection of Civilians Namie Di Razza, a post-doctoral fellow at the International Peace Institute, a think tank that focuses on peace, security and 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

Uruguay, Senegal, Sweden, UK

14 December 2017 Climate Change: Preparing for security implications of rising temperatures

Halbe Zijlstra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, who may discuss The Hague Declaration on Planetary Security which outlines measures to address climate-related security challenges; and Caitlin Werrel, the co-founder and President of the Center for Climate and Security, a Washington D.C.-based policy institute that focuses on climate-related security threats

France, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the UK; the Netherlands and Peru, which enter the Council in 2018; and Germany, the Maldives and Morocco

22 December 2017 Israel/Palestine: Humanitarian Aspects of Missing and Captive Persons in Gaza

Leah Goldin, whose son was killed in combat with Hamas and whose remains are being held by the group, and Irwin Cotler, Founder and Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University

Ukraine, US





12 February 2018 Upcoming presidential, legislative and provincial elections scheduled for 23 December 2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix; President of the DRC Independent National Electoral Commission Corneille Nangaa; Central African Director for Human Rights Watch Ida Sawyer; African Regional Director 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.

Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US

22 February 2018 “Prospects for the two-State solution for peace”

A statement was delivered on behalf of former US President Jimmy Carter by Ambassador Richard Murphy, followed by 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.

Kuwait, Bolivia, France and Sweden

12 March 2018 “Implementing Syria’s Cessation of Hostilities: Syria’s Opposition Speaks”

Two members of the Syria Negotiation Commission (Hadi al Bahra and Fadwa Mahmoud) and a resident of Eastern Ghouta, speaking through video-link

France, the Netherlands, Poland, the UK

15 March 2018 Crimea

http://webtv.un.org/search/the-russian-occupation-of-crimea-the-role-and-limits-of-the-un-security-council-and-good-offices-of-the-un-secretary-general-in-addressing-violations-of-the-un-charter-and-international-law-security-council-arria-formula/5752737771001/

Olena Zerkal, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and Ayla Bakkalli, a representative of the Crimean Tatars; Germany and the EU also delivered statements as parties with an interest in the issue.

Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, the UK and the US in partnership with Ukraine, which served on the Council in 2016-2017

19 March 2018 Human Rights in Syria

http://webtv.un.org/watch/the-situation-in-the-middle-east-syria-security-council-arria-formula-meeting/5754853662001/

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein

France, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Sweden, UK, US

9 April 2018 “Enhancing synergies between the United Nations and regional and subregional organisations to address the nexus between terrorism and transnational organised crime”

http://webtv.un.org/search/enhancing-synergies-between-the-united-nations-and-regional-and-subregional-organizations-to-address-the-nexus-between-terrorism-and-transnational-organized-crime-security-council-arria-formula-meeting/5767177053001/

Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , Under-Secretary-General Yury Fedotov; the Head of the Office of Counter-Terrorism , Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov; Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, Permanent Representative of Singapore on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ; Ambassador Fatima Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the AU; Ambassador João Pedro Vale de Almeida, Head of the EU Delegation to the UN; Ambassador Maged Abdelfattah Abdelaziz, Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States to the UN; Alison Treppel, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism of the Organization of American States; and Rasa Ostrauskaite, Coordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Peru

7 May 2018 “Ending and Preventing Grave Violations against Children through Action Plans: Best Practices from African States”

http://webtv.un.org/search/ending-and-preventing-grave-violations-against-children-through-action-plans-best-practices-from-african-states-arria-formula-meeting/5781880157001/

Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict Virginia Gamba; four diplomats from African countries with experience of action plans [Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, DRC and Sudan]; Sweden, the chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict; France, one of the co-chairs of the meeting; and representatives of UNICEF, DPKO, and the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict

Poland in partnership with Côte d’Ivoire, France and Sweden







13 June 2018 Maritime crime as a threat to international peace and security

http://webtv.un.org/search/maritime-crime-as-a-threat-to-international-peace-and-security-united-nations-security-council-open-arria-formula-meeting/5797556512001

Simone Monasebian, the Director of the New York office of UNODC; Sagala Ratnayake, Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister and Minister of Youth Affairs and Southern Development in Sri Lanka; Enrico Credendino, Commander of the EU Naval Force Mediterranean Operation Sophia; Hajara Yusuf, Public Prosecutor in the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice; and Alan Cole, Head of the UNODC Global Maritime Crime Programme

Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, the Netherlands, US

6 July 2018 The relationship between the Security Council and the International Criminal Court S/2018/810

http://webtv.un.org/search/unsc-icc-relations-achievements-challenges-and-synergies-security-council-arria-formula-meeting/5806377792001

Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Stephen Mathias; Judge O-Gon Kwon, President of the Assembly of States Parties; ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda; Toussaint Muntazini Mukimapa, Special Prosecutor of the Special Criminal Court of the Central African Republic; and Ambassador Issa Konfourou, Permanent Representative of Mali to the UN

Bolivia, Côte d’Ivoire, France, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Sweden, UK

7 September 2018 Syrian Voices on Preventing a Deathtrap in Idlib

http://webtv.un.org/search/security-council-arria-formula-open-meeting-syrian-voices-on-preventing-a-deathtrap-in-idlib/5832176303001

Hind Kabawat (Deputy Head of the Syrian Negotiation Commission in Geneva), Fadwa Ojyli and Bassma Kodmani (both members of the Syrian Negotiation Commission), Bahjat Hajjar (a researcher and activist) and Hadi Al-Bahra (the chief negotiator of the Syrian National Coalition delegation in Geneva)

France, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the UK

10 September 2018 Venezuela as Case Study of Corruption, Peace, and Security

http://webtv.un.org/search/venezuela-as-case-study-of-corruption-peace-and-security-arria-formula-meeting-of-the-security-council/5833207978001

Mercedes de Freitas (founder and Executive Director of Transparencia Venezuela, the Venezuela chapter of Transparency International) and Marshall Billingslea (Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing from the US Department of the Treasury)

US

19 October 2018 Silencing the Guns in Africa

http://webtv.un.org/search/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

Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Representative of the African Union to the United Nations, and Bience Gwanas, the Special Advisor of the Secretary-General on Africa

Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, South Africa and the AU

22 October 2018 Moving from a Culture of Impunity to a Culture of Deterrence: The Use of Sanctions in Addressing Sexual Violence in Conflict S/2018/932

http://webtv.un.org/search/moving-from-a-culture-of-impunity-to-a-culture-of-deterrence-the-use-of-sanctions-in-addressing-sexual-violence-in-conflict-arria-formula-meeting-of-the-security-council-/5852059174001

Rita Lopidia, Executive Director and Co-founder of the EVE Organization for Women Development in South Sudan and head of the South Sudan Women Coalition for Peace; Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict; Rebecca Brubaker, Senior Policy Adviser at the Centre for Policy Research at United Nations University; Ruben de Koning, the coordinator of the Panel of Experts assisting the 2374 Mali Sanctions Committee; Hans-Jakob Schindler, the former coordinator of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team assisting both the sanctions committee concerning ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida, as well as the sanctions committee concerning the Taliban and associated individuals

Netherlands, Côte d’Ivoire, France and Peru

26 October 2018 Water, Peace and Security http://webtv.un.org/search/arria-formula-meeting-on-water-peace-and-security/5854096417001

Danilo Türk, chair of the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace; UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Miroslav Jenča; and Manish Bapna, the Executive Vice President and Managing Director of the World Resources Institute on behalf of the Water, Peace and Security Initiative

Bolivia, Côte d’Ivoire, and the Netherlands; incoming members Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Germany, and Indonesia; and Italy, a member in 2017 in a split term with the Netherlands






26 October 2018 Protecting Children Born of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones

http://webtv.un.org/search/open-arria-formula-meeting-on-protecting-children-born-of-sexual-violence-in-conflict-zones/5854004462001

Pramila Patten, Special Representative oftheSecretary-Generalon Sexual Violence in Conflict; Omar Abdi, Deputy Executive of UNICEF; Mohammed Hussein Mohammed Bahr AlUloom, Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nation; Masud Bin Momen, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nation; Evelyn Amony, Cofounder and Chairperson of 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)

Poland, in partnership with Bolivia, France, Germany and South Africa

7 November 2018 Protection of the Environment During Armed Conflict S/2018/991

http://webtv.un.org/search/protection-of-the-environment-during-armed-conflict-security-council-arria-formula-meeting/5859031295001

Assistant Secretary-General and head of the UNEP Satya Tripathi; Director of International Programs at the Environmental Law Institute and co-founder of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association Carl Bruch

Kuwait, Germany

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

UK

3 December 2018 The situation of persons with disabilities in armed conflict

Mr. Vladimir Cuk, Executive Director, International Disability Alliance; Ms. Shanelle Hall, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF; Ms. Catalina Devandas, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (VTC); Prof. Michael Stein, Harvard Law School; Mr. Hansjoerg Strohmeyer, Chief of Policy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Poland, in partnership with Côte d’Ivoire, Germany, Kuwait and Peru

10 December 2018 Raising the effectiveness of atrocity crimes prevention: role of the United Nations Security Council and its Members

Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and UN Legal Counsel; Samantha Capicotto, Director of Policy and Planning of the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation and Program Director of the Global Edition of the Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention

Poland, in partnership with Belgium, Côte d’Ivoire, Germany, Kuwait and Peru

Documents

Arria-Formula Meetings, 1992-2018 - Security Council Report · 3 Mar. 1993 Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina 24 Mar. 1993 Former Yugoslavia