UN, 1 Jul — RIA Novosti, Olga Denisova. UN Security Council begins work in its new composition. From 2017 to the composition of the SB will be joined by Bolivia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Sweden and Ethiopia. In January, the chairmanship of the Council will take Sweden.
the UN security Council is the main structure that carries the main responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. All at the table are representatives of 15 States: five permanent members — Britain, China, Russia, USA and France and 10 non-permanent elected for two years. This year, Bolivia, Egypt, Italy, Kazakhstan, Senegal, Sweden, Ukraine, Uruguay, Ethiopia, Japan. While Italy share membership in the Council with the Netherlands and will give place in 2018.
Accordingly, their places at the Council table December 31, 2016 left Angola, Venezuela, Spain, Malaysia, New Zealand.
Syria
it is Obvious that in the new year to the security Council will move the issues that defined his work in 2016. For almost six years, unresolved Syrian conflict. Over the past year the situation in Syria was discussed in the security Council dozens of times, and the last one literally in the last hours of the year. The thirty-first of December, the Security Council unanimously adopted a Russia prepared a resolution in support of the agreements on the ceasefire in Syria achieved through the efforts of Moscow and Ankara, and carrying out in Astana of the talks between Damascus and the opposition.
Not counting the emergency meeting, the UN security Council is engaged in Syria three times in the month when meetings are held on the humanitarian situation in the country, the process of chemical disarmament and the briefing by the special representative of the UN on the state of the political dialogue between the parties. In the same format of the SAT and will continue to work. In the first weeks of work, the emphasis is expected to be made on the political track, because on the 8th of February another round of inter-Syrian talks in Geneva, which shall be preceded by the meeting of representatives of the government and the opposition in the capital of Kazakhstan.
Earlier the President of Russia Vladimir Putin said that he agreed with Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan on the proposal of the Syrian conflicting parties to continue the process of peace talks in Astana. According to him, the new platform can complement the Geneva talks. The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev supported the initiative and expressed readiness to provide a platform for such negotiations. As stated by 29 December, the Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russia together with Turkey and Iran preparing to begin meeting in Astana on Syria.
According to the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the UN Vitaly Churkin, the US under President Donald trump could become an important player in the negotiations on Syria in Astana. He also noted that in the preparation of the meeting will be to take part of Iran. Churkin believes that this process can join and Egypt. “There are other very important players — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, maybe others”, — said Churkin informed reporters at the UN.
the Last time the warring parties met under the mediation of UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura in April 2016. Since then, to resume the negotiation process failed.
Also under consideration by members of the security Council is drawn up by France and Britain of a draft resolution on sanctions against those responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Speech, in particular, on sanctions against 11 citizens of Syria and of 10 organizations and companies in the country, which presumably are related to chemical attacks. Also, this document will prohibit all countries of supply to the Syrian government any helicopters.
middle East and the United States
in January, the Security Council would discuss the middle East conflict — with the traditional open debate on Israel and Palestine. This issue has galvanized the security Council, and especially the delegations of the USA and Israel at the end of 2016.
In late December, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution condemning Israel’s settlement activity and demanding to stop the construction. The document was supported by 14 members of the security Council, the U.S. delegation abstained in the vote, not applying a veto power, as urged by the Israeli authorities. For it is leaving the Obama administration was criticized by the elected President of Donald trump and the Republicans.
when U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry called coalition of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far right in the country’s history with the agenda dictated by the “most extreme elements”. In terms of numerous figures, the Secretary of state painted a picture of large-scale settler colonization of Palestinian territories, crosses, as he considers the prospects for resolving the conflict on the principle of “two States for two peoples.” Netanyahu was “deeply disappointed” by such statements, calling it Kerry “as newbalancewomen as anti-Israel resolution adopted by the UN Security Council”.
At the same time, Netanyahu expressed confidence that the Alliance of Israel and the United States will survive the deep divisions that exist with the administration of President Barack Obama, and with time will get stronger. He said the attitude to cooperation with the newly elected US President trump, who criticises predecessor for pressure on Israel.
conflict
throughout 2016 the UN Security Council repeatedly returned to the situation in the Republic of South Sudan — the youngest state member of the United Nations, which gained independence in 2011. The Council members also visited the country.
In December 2016, SB did not support the US-proposed draft resolution on the ban on arms supplies to South Sudan, as well as sanctions against individuals. the initiative for an arms embargo and sanctions against the chief of staff of the armed forces Paul Malanga, information Minister Michael McVeigh and the leader of the opposition Rijeka Mascara in the course of the year by the U.S., and in December issued an appropriate draft resolution to the vote. Voted for the document, only seven security Council members.
with respect To South Sudan the sanctions regime. In March 2015 the UN security Council established the freezing of assets and travel ban for individuals and organizations that “are responsible for the actions or measures that threaten the peace, security or stability of South Sudan, or involved in such action or measures.” In the sanctions list was made by three representatives of the armed forces of southern Sudan and the three military commanders of the rebels involved in the conflict in the country.
the Situation in South Sudan will remain on the Council’s agenda this year.
South Sudan became independent from Sudan’s government in 2011. In December 2013 the new country there was armed conflict between different nationalities representing President Salva Kiir and the opposition, headed by the rebel Vice-President Reecom Masara. In August 2015 the parties failed to sign a peace agreement, but in July 2016 again, clashes erupted.
non-nuclear initiatives
Among the five countries elected to UN Security Council in 2016, Kazakhstan is the only state that never before has a non-permanent member of the security Council were not. Kazakhstan became the first Central Asian Republic gained a seat on the Board.
In its debut in the security Council of Kazakhstan intend to intensify work on nuclear disarmament. This was stated by Minister of foreign Affairs Yerlan Idrissov said to journalists at the UN after the election of the country in the security Council in June. Priority areas for the country to become a global security, nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, as well as work in the area of food security.
Permanent representative of Kazakhstan to the UN Kairat Abdrakhmanov in which the country can obtain the status of a non-permanent member in the security Council, on 28 December was appointed Minister of foreign Affairs of the Republic.
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