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International Peace and Africa on the Chinese Agenda for the UN Security Council

International Peace and Africa on the Chinese Agenda for the UN Security Council

China, which this month chairs the United Nations Security Council, has scheduled two main UN debates, one on international peacekeeping and the other focused on Africa.

The information was advanced this Monday in a note released by the UN Security Council itself.

The first is an open debate on “Peace and Security in Africa: Capacity Building for Peacekeeping.”

“The objective of the meeting is to identify the challenges to peacekeeping in Africa and generate ideas to support capacity building on the continent to meet these challenges,” the note indicates.

The debate will address Sudan, with a semi-annual report from the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Darfur, but also Libya, on the UN support mission in that country and issues related to the 1970 Libya Sanctions Committee, and also Mali, with a discussion on sanctions renewal.

The second event planned by China is the “”Maintenance of international peace and security,” during which UN Secretary-General António Guterres is expected to speak.

The Security Council has also scheduled a session on the 15th report on the threat posed by the Islamic State.

The UN Security Council also said it “will most likely meet to discuss Ukraine during the month,” as well as the issue of Georgia, as it marks the 14th anniversary of the 2008 conflict between that country and Russia.

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One of the measures announced by China upon assuming the presidency of that UN body, is to reduce the use of air conditioning in the Security Council room by August.

The measure was also announced this Monday by the Chinese ambassador to the UN on his account on the social network Twitter and aims to contribute to “save energy and reduce carbon emissions.”

In 2019, the UN as a whole implemented measures to limit the use of air conditioning and heating by postponing them for an hour in the morning and turning them off an hour earlier in the afternoon, which would allow, according to the United Nations, cost savings of about $7,000 (6,800 euros) per day.

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