| Date | 31 October 1994 |
|---|---|
| Started | 15:00 |
| Ended | 18:30 |
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The President
I call on the President of the Security Council to introduce the report of the Security Council.
Sir David Hannay (United Kingdom)
I am delighted to have this opportunity to address the General Assembly as President of the Security Council, albeit on the last day of my presidency, and to introduce the annual report of the Council covering the period from 16 June 1993 to 15 June 1994 (A/49/2).
The members of the Security Council attach the very greatest importance to the timely preparation and submission of the annual report to the General Assembly, as provided for in Articles 15 and 24 of the United Nations Charter. In presenting this annual report to the Assembly, I have sought to follow the practice established last year by the Permanent Representative of Brazil. That is to say, the draft of this annual report was issued to all Member States and was adopted at a public meeting of the Security Council, not at a closed meeting, as in the past.
Consideration of the Council's report by the General Assembly constitutes an important occasion for a substantive dialogue and interaction between these two principal organs of the United Nations, a dialogue which will, I hope, touch not just on the nature of the report presented to the Assembly today, but also on the substance of the issues before the Security Council.
As has been the case with past reports, the report I am introducing this year reflects the heavy workload of the Council in responding to problems related to the maintenance of international peace and security. As the report notes, during the period under consideration the Council held 153 formal meetings, adopted 87 resolutions and agreed 68 statements by the President. In addition, Council members held 252 consultations of the whole, totalling some 353 hours. Other members of the Council participating in this debate may wish to comment on the substance of that work. It is not for me, as President of the Security Council, to do so, except perhaps to note, as our Brazilian colleague did last year, that the voluminous content of the document before the Assembly reflects the varied and complex nature of the challenges posed to international peace and security and the justified expectation of Member States that the Security Council should respond to them.
The members of the Security Council listened carefully to the proposals made in the debate in this Hall last year upon the Council's report, and also to debates elsewhere in this Organization, on how the work of the Council can be made more transparent and more accessible to non-members of the Council. In June 1993 the Council established an informal Working Group on documentation and other procedural matters. That Working Group has met regularly -- virtually on a monthly basis -- and a number of steps have been taken following recommendations by the Group. First and foremost among them are the changes to the annual report itself. The introduction to the report has been made more substantive and, like last year, the appendices listing resolutions and presidential statements now provide cross-references to the relevant chapter, section and sub-section of the report for each resolution and presidential statement. Further changes remain under consideration by the Working Group. While I would not wish to stand here and tell the Assembly that this is a user-friendly document, I would suggest that it is a slightly less user-unfriendly document than the reports of two or three years ago.
In addition, the Council decided in March 1994 that draft resolutions in their "blue", or provisional, form would be made available for collection by non-members of the Council as soon as they were circulated. Also, in July 1993 the Council decided to make available to all Member States the tentative forecast of the programme of work of the Council for each month. This year the practice has been instituted of annexing to the forecast a list of forthcoming reports by the Secretary-General as requested by the Council as well as the schedule of forthcoming reviews or renewals of mandates of peace-keeping operations and of sanctions regimes. Also, as part of the effort to improve the documentation of the Council and make its work more accessible, the Working Group has been reviewing the list of matters of which the Council is seized. This year a large number of items has again been removed from the list. Items are removed only after extensive consideration and appropriate consultation. Neither the removal of a matter from the list nor its retention carries any implication for the substance of the matter. But the exercise is a necessary one of rationalization.
The Working Group has also given consideration to the important question of ways of briefing Member States on the progress of informal consultations without prejudicing the confidentiality and the efficiency of the consultations system itself, and the first informal presidency briefing of non-members on the current work of the Council was held on 27 October 1994.
Finally, there has been much consideration this year in the Council of ways to enhance consultations and exchanges of information with troop-contributing countries regarding peace-keeping operations, including their planning, management and coordination, particularly when significant extensions of an operation's mandate are in prospect. The presidential statement of 3 May 1994 made certain recommendations in this regard. It also committed the Council to keeping under review arrangements for communication with non-members of the Council. This month, consideration is being given to further steps to improve these arrangements for consultation, involving Member States, troop-contributing countries, members of the Security Council and the Secretariat. I should just say that this morning we made substantial progress towards decisions on this matter, which will, I hope, not be long delayed.
As indicated in the introduction to the Security Council's report, the report is not intended as a substitute for the official records of the Security Council, which provide a more substantive account of its deliberations. Thus the report should be read, for the purposes of this discussion in the General Assembly too, in conjunction with other official documents of the Council, to which it constitutes a reference guide.
In conclusion, I would just say that the members of the Security Council will, I am sure, listen attentively to the debate we are holding here today. They welcome this opportunity for a substantive dialogue; I hope that members of the Assembly will see by the way we have responded in the past year that this is not just a polite phrase that we use. We are listening, and we will take into consideration points that are put forward in this debate.
The President
I wish to propose that the list of speakers in the debate on this item be closed at 4 p.m. today.
Mr. Wisnumurti (Indonesia)
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