The Peace and Security Council I expect will have a very important role to play.
The African Union Peace and Security Council has called the occupation of Heglig "illegal and unacceptable", and also condemned Sudan for carrying out aerial bombardments of South Sudan.
Bruno Zidouemba, of the AU's Peace and Security Council, said the 53-member bloc hoped the move would "give a chance for peace in Sudan".
It notes that the United Nations Charter accords primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security to the Security Council, but that Chapter VIII of the document encourages the development of pacific settlement of local disputes through regional arrangements.
The President also noted the broader role that the Security Council has in supporting peace, security and development around the world.
Then too, the fact that the PA's chief negotiator Saeb Erekat published an article in The Guardian two weeks ago in which he implicitly called for Israel's destruction, one could be forgiven for thinking Ma'ariv's former opinion editor Ben Dror Yemini and Shaul Arieli from the EU-funded Council for Peace and Security might have attenuated their support for Israeli land giveaways.
Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, told the Security Council today that diplomatic efforts to reinvigorate the Middle East peace process had continued, and recent meetings -- including of the Quartet on Friday -- were part of a concentrated push to create the conditions for re-launching efforts for a two-State solution.
"This serious deterioration of the situation threatens even more the stability and integrity of Mali and constitutes a direct threat to international peace and security, " the council said.
The Secretary-General later met with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, with whom he discussed the Middle East peace process, Syria-Lebanon relations and the implementation of Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) and the Syria-Israel regional track.
The Secretary General will present detailed plans for the "peace-making force" at the beginning of February and, pending Security Council approval, the aim is to get troops on the ground within three months.
Although in its resolutions the Security Council has labelled the crisis in Kosovo a threat to peace and security in the Balkans, it has pointedly not authorised the use of force against Yugoslavia.
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Perhaps its greatest drawback is also one of its touted merits: that it is so carefully crafted to conform with the current UN charter, which makes the Security Council the most important arbiter of war and peace.
In an emergency session Tuesday, the Security Council unanimously said the nuclear test poses "a clear threat to international peace and security" and pledged further action.
The members of the Security Council reiterated that no terrorist act can reverse the path towards peace, democracy and reconstruction in Afghanistan, which is supported by the people and the Government of Afghanistan and the international community.
In each case the Security Council, which has declared the spread of such weapons a threat to international peace and security, is implicitly or explicitly the presumed enforcer of last resort.
Using the CPA as a guidepost, the Strategy has identified where development partners may be called upon to provide support in the short term, including ongoing rehabilitation of the discharged, constitution formulation, support to the conflict-affected, implementation of the National Plan of Action for implementing UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820 on women, peace and security, and support to the next national elections.
Then Security Council Resolution 687 imposed a series of demands upon Iraq with the objective of restoring peace and security in the area.
Security Council will be an opportunity to advance peace and security that both our nations seek around the world.
Since 2008, the United Nations Security Council has adopted three separate resolutions recognizing conflict-related sexual violence as a threat to international peace and security.
Shortly after the peace deal in 2000, the UN Security Council set up Unmee and authorised a force of up to 4, 200 military personnel to monitor the ceasefire and ensure the security aspects of peace deal are observed by both sides.
Meanwhile, though, another proliferation bombshell shows why a failure to deal with Iraq would not only destroy the council's credibility, but threaten the international peace and security it is meant to uphold.
Security Council members that Syria lacks full compliance with the peace plan and that troops and heavy weapons remain in population centers despite an agreement to withdraw.
The court and the Security Council are at loggerheads over who could trigger an investigation: the council, supposedly the body with prime responsibility for international peace and security and where America, Russia and China all have vetoes, or the prosecutor and judges of the ICC.
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Due to etraordinary circumstances not present at the moment -- notably the Kremlin's internal preoccupation as the Soviet Union unraveled and the fact of Iraq had invaded its neighbor -- no vetoes were cast as the Security Council approved steps to repulse the Iraqi occupiers and restore peace and stability to the Gulf.
Al-Kidwa wants the Assembly to act under a 1950 resolution that allows members to act whenever the Security Council "fails to assume its" responsibility in keeping world peace and security.
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The Security Council today called for more rapid and pointed efforts to build peace in the period immediately after strife-torn countries emerged from armed conflict, following a day-long open debate in which more than 40 speakers delivered statements.
Meanwhile the UN Middle East envoy Robert Serry told the Security Council that Jewish settlements were contrary to international law and increasingly an obstacle to peace, our correspondent says.
"At the end of the day we have paved the way for a united agreement by the Security Council for the United Nations to stay in this country for the search of peace and ending violence, " he said.
Supporters of Mr Abbas argue that the peace process fostered by the US and other Quartet nations was meant to deliver independence by this month, only the UN Security Council can endorse fully fledged membership, and that two years of stalemate in negotiations with Israel have produced intense frustration among Palestinians.
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