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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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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania and mediator for
the Arusha peace negotiations
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
19 May 1997 Great Lakes region—Burundi and Rwanda
Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania and mediator for
the Arusha peace negotiations
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
Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania and mediator for
the Arusha peace negotiations
Gabon
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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
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Arria-Formula Meetings
ARRIA-FORMULA MEETINGS, 1992-2018
DATE SUBJECT/DOCUMENT IN WHICH THE MEETING WAS MENTIONED
INVITEE(S) ORGANISER(S)
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