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Angola

11–14 October
1992

N/A

Ad hoccommission
composed ofCape Verde,Morocco, Russia,
US

S/24623 (6 October 1992) was a note from the Council
president including the decision to send an ad hoc commission
to Angola.
S/24639 (8 October 1992) included the composition of themission.
S/24683 (20 October 1992) was a note by the Council
president on an oral report in consultations on 19 October on
the mission to Angola.

Bosnia andHerzegovina

22–27 April 1993

Ambassador Diego
Arria (Venezuela)

France, Hungary,
New Zealand,
Pakistan, Russia

Also Zagreb and Split(Croatia) and Belgrade(FRY)

S/RES/819 (16 April 1993) indicated the decision to send a
mission of members of the Security Council to assess thesituation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
S/25700 (30 April 1993) was the report of the mission.
S/RES/824 (6 May 1993) welcomed the report of the Security
Council mission and in particular its recommendations
concerning safe areas and established safe areas in Bosnia
and related UNPROFOR responsibilities.
S/PV.3208 (6 May 1993) was the meeting during which
resolution 824 (1993) was adopted.

Mozambique

7–12 August
1994

Ambassador Ibrahim
Gambari (Nigeria)

Brazil, China,
Czech Republic,
Djibouti, New
Zealand, Oman,
Russia, US

S/PRST/1994/35 (19 July 1994) indicated the Council’s
intention to consider sending a mission to Mozambique todiscuss with the parties how best to ensure full and timely
implementation of the General Peace Agreement.
S/1994/931 (4 August 1994) transmitted the guidelines of themission and its composition.
S/1994/1009 (29 August 1994) was the report of the mission.
S/PRST/1994/51 (7 September 1994)—among others—notedwith appreciation the report and oral briefing of the mission it
sent to Mozambique to discuss with the parties how best toensure full and timely implementation of the General Peace
Agreement.

Burundi13 –14 August
1994

Ambassador Ibrahim
Gambari (Nigeria)

Czech Republic,
Russia, US

S/1994/1039 (7 September 1994) was the report of themission.

Somalia

26–27 October
1994

Ambassador Colin
Keating (New Zealand)

China, France,
Nigeria, Pakistan,
Russia, US

S/RES/946 (30 September 1994) expressed the Council’s
readiness to consider sending a mission to Somalia.

Also Nairobi (Kenya)

S/1994/1245 (3 November 1994) was the report of the mission.
Burundi

10–11 February
1995

Ambassador Ibrahim
Gambari (Nigeria)

China, Czech
Republic,
Germany,
Honduras,
Indonesia, US

S/1995/112 (6 February 1995) included the terms of reference(ToRs) of the mission to Burundi and Rwanda and its
composition.
S/1995/163 (28 February 1995) was the report of the mission.
S/PV.3506 (9 March 1995) was the meeting during which
S/PRST/1995/10 was adopted.
S/PRST/1995/10 (9 March 1995)—among others—welcomed
the recommendations and observations contained in thereport of the mission.

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Rwanda

12–13 February
1995

Ambassador Ibrahim
Gambari (Nigeria)

China, Czech
Republic,
Germany,
Honduras,
Indonesia, US

S/1995/112 (6 February 1995) included the ToRs of the mission
to Burundi and Rwanda and its composition.

Argentina,
France,Honduras,Oman, USS/RES/995 (26 May 1995) decided to send a mission of
the Council to the region with a view to accelerating theimplementation of the Settlement Plan.

Western Sahara

3–9 June 1995

Including Morocco,
Algeria, Mauritania,
Tindouf and Laayoune

Ambassador Legwaila
Joseph Legwaila(Botswana)

S/1995/164 (28 February 1995) was the report of the mission.

S/1995/431 (30 May 1995) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.
S/1995/498 (20 June 1995) was the report of the mission.
S/PV.3550 (30 June 1995) was the meeting during which
resolution 1002 was adopted.
S/RES/1002 (30 June 1995)—among others—endorsed therecommendations of the mission of the Council concerning
the identification process and other aspects of the Settlement
Plan, described in paragraphs 41 to 53 of its report.

East Timor (Dili) andIndonesia (Jakarta)

8–12 September
1999

Ambassador Martin
Andjaba (Namibia)

Malaysia,
Netherlands,
Slovenia, UK

S/1999/946 (5 September 1999) was a letter from the
President of the Security Council to the Secretary-General
informing him about the Council’s decision to dispatch a
mission.
S/1999/972 (6 September 1999) included the composition andthe ToRs of the mission.
S/1999/976 (14 September 1999) was the report of themission.

Kosovo27–29 April
2000

Ambassador
Anwarul Chowdhury(Bangladesh)

Argentina,
Canada, China,
Jamaica,
Malaysia, Russia,
UkraineS/2000/320 (14 April 2000) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.

S/2000/363 (29 April 2000) was the report of the mission.
S/PV.4138 (11 May 2000) was the presentation of the report of
the Security Council mission to Kosovo.

DRC

3–8 May 2000

Ambassador Richard
Holbrooke (US)Also Brussels (Belgium),
Rwanda, Uganda,
Zambia, and Zimbabwe

France, Mali,
Namibia, theNetherlands,
Tunisia, UK

S/2000/344 (24 April 2000) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.
S/2000/416 (11 May 2000) was the report of the mission.
S/PV.4143 and Resumption 1 (17 May 2000) was a briefing on
the mission’s report.

Ethiopia and Eritrea

8–10 May 2000

Ambassador Richard
Holbrooke (US)France, Mali,
Namibia, theNetherlands,
Tunisia, UK

S/2000/392 (7 May 2000) included the ToRs of the mission.
S/2000/413 (11 May 2000) was the report of the mission.
S/PV.4142 (12 May 2000) was the adoption of resolution 1297
(2000) under the agenda “Security Council Special Mission
visit to Eritrea and Ethiopia, 9-10 May 2000”.

Sierra Leone
Also Guinea, Mali,
Nigeriaand Liberia

7–14 October
2000

Ambassador Jeremy
Greenstock (UK)

Bangladesh,
Canada,China, France,
Jamaica, Mali,
the Netherlands,
Russia, Ukraine,
US

S/2000/886 (20 September 2000) included the ToRs of themission.
S/2000/992 (16 October 2000) was the report of the mission.
S/PV.4216 (3 November 2000) was the adoption of
S/PRST/2000/31 under the agenda “Report of the Security
Council mission to Sierra Leone”.
S/PRST/2000/31 (3 November 2000) welcomed therecommendations made in the mission’s report.

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East Timor andIndonesia

9–17 November
2000

Ambassador Martin
Andjaba (Namibia)

Argentina,
Malaysia,
Tunisia, Ukraine,
UK, US

S/2000/1030 (25 October 2000) included the composition
and the ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.4206 (12 October 2000) was the communiqué of theprivate meeting of the Council with Alwi Shihab, Minister for
Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, on the mission to Indonesia to bedispatched in November.
S/PV.4228 (20 November 2000) was the communiqué ofthe private meeting of the Council during which Ambassador
Martin Andjaba introduced the mission’s report.
S/2000/1105 (21 November 2000) was the report of themission.

The Great Lakes
region: South Africa(Johannesburg
and Pretoria), DRC(Kinshasa), Angola(Luanda), Zambia(Lusaka), Burundi(Bujumbura), Tanzania(Dar es Salaam),Rwanda (Kigali) and
Uganda (Kampala)15–26 May 2001

Kosovo

16–18 June 2001

Also Belgrade (FRY)

Ambassador JeanDavid Levitte (France)

Ambassador
Anwarul Chowdhury(Bangladesh)

China, Colombia,
Ireland, Jamaica,
Mali, Mauritius,
Singapore,
Tunisia, Ukraine,
UK, US

S/2001/408 (25 April 2001) included the ToRs of the mission.

All 15 members

S/2001/482 (15 May 2001) included the ToRs of the mission.

S/2001/521 (29 May 2001) and Add.1 (30 May 2001) included
the mission’s report and its annexes.
S/PV.4323 and Resumption 1 (30 May 2001) was a briefing on
the report of the Security Council mission to the Great Lakes
region.

S/2001/600 (19 June 2001) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.4331 (19 June 2001) was the presentation of the reportof the Security Council mission to Kosovo.

Ethiopia and Eritrea

21–25 February
2002

Ambassador Ole Peter
Kolby (Norway)

All 15 members

S/PRST/2002/1 (16 January 2002) confirmed the Council’s
intention to send a mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea in February
2002.
S/2002/129 (31 January 2002) included the composition andthe ToRs of the mission.
S/2002/205 (27 February 2002) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.4485 (6 March 2002) was the presentation of themission’s report.

The Great Lakes
region: South Africa(Johannesburg
and Pretoria),
Zimbabwe (Harare),
DRC (Kinshasa andKisangani), Angola(Luanda), Uganda(Kampala), Tanzania(Dar es Salaam),Burundi (Bujumbura)and Rwanda (Kigali).

27 April–7 May
2002

Kosovo and Belgrade(FRY)

14–17 December
2002

Ambassador JeanDavid Levitte (France)

All 15 members

S/2002/430 (17 April 2002) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.
S/2002/537 (13 May 2002) and Add.1 (14 May 2002) were themission’s report and its annexes.
S/PV.4532 (14 May 2002) was the presentation of the Security
Council mission’s report.

Ambassador Ole Peter
Kolby (Norway)

All 15 members

S/2002/1271 (21 November 2002) included the ToRs of themission.
S/2002/1376 (19 December 2002) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.4676 (19 December 2002) was the presentation of thereport of the Security Council mission to Kosovo and Belgrade.

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Central Africa: South
Africa (Pretoria),
Angola (Luanda), DRC(Kinshasa and Bunia),
Burundi (Bujumbura),
Rwanda (Kigali),Tanzania (Dar es
Salaam) and Uganda(Entebbe)

7–16 June 2003

Ambassador JeanMarc de La Sablière(France)All 15 members

S/2003/558 (21 May 2003) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.
S/2003/653 (17 June 2003) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.4775 (18 June 2003) was a briefing on the mission’sreport.
S/PV.4794 (25 July 2003) was the briefing during which theCouncil adopted.
S/PRST/2003/12 (25 July 2003) endorsed therecommendations of the missions to Central Africa and West
Africa.

West Africa: Côte
d’Ivoire, Ghana,
Guinea, GuineaBissau, Nigeria andSierra Leone

26 June– 5 July
2003

Ambassador Jeremy
Greenstock (UK)All 15 members

Ambassador Adolfo
Aguilar Zinser (Mexico)
led the mission in
Guinea-Bissau

S/2003/525 (5 May 2003) included the ToRs for a mission
originally planned for late May.
S/2003/688 (7 July 2003) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.4785 (9 July 2003) was the presentation of the mission’sreport by the lead of the mission.
S/PV.4794 (25 July 2003) was the briefing during which theCouncil adopted.
S/PRST/2003/12 (25 July 2003) endorsed therecommendations of the missions to Central Africa and West
Africa.

Afghanistan

31 October–7
November 2003

Ambassador Gunter
Pleuger (Germany)

All 15 members

S/2003/930 (1 October 2003) included the composition andthe ToRs of the mission.
S/2003/1074 (11 November 2003) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.4855 (11 November 2003) was the briefing by the lead of
the Security Council mission to Afghanistan.

West Africa: Côte
d’Ivoire, Ghana,
Guinea, GuineaBissau, Liberia, Nigeria
and Sierra Leone

20–29 June
2004

Ambassador EmyrJones Parry (UK)

14 members:
Russia did notparticipate

S/2004/491 (15 June 2004) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.
S/2004/525 (2 July 2004) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.5000 (30 June 2004) was the briefing on the mission.
S/PV.5005 (16 July 2004) was the presentation of themission’s report.

Central Africa:
Rwanda (Kigali),
DRC (Kinshasa andBukavu), Burundi(Bujumbura) and
Uganda (Entebbe)

21–25 November
2004
Followed themeetings of
the Council in
Nairobi on 18–19
NovemberAmbassador JeanMarc de La Sablière(France)All 15 members

S/2004/891 (8 November 2004) included the composition andthe ToRs of the mission.
S/2004/934 (30 November 2004) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.5091 (30 November 2004) was a briefing by the lead of
the Security Council mission to Central Africa..
S/PV.5096 (8 December 2004) was a presentation of themission’s report.

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Haiti

13–16 April 2005

Ambassador Ronaldo
Mota Sardenberg(Brazil)

All 15 members

S/2005/220 (31 March 2005) included the ToRs.
SC/8354 (8 April 2005) was a press release on the Council’s
mission.
S/2005/235 (11 April 2005) included the composition of themission;SC/8360 (15 April 2005) was a press statement by the leadof the Security Council mission to Haiti on the murder of a
MINUSTAH member in Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince.
S/PV.5164 (20 April 2005) was a briefing by the lead of theCouncil’s mission to Haiti.
S/2005/302 (6 May 2005) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.5178 (13 May 2005) was the presentation of the mission’sreport.

Central Africa: DRC(Kinshasa, MbujiMayi and Kamina),
Burundi (Bujumbura),
Rwanda (Kigali),
Uganda (Entebbe)
and Tanzania (Dar es
Salaam)

4–11 November
2005

Ambassador JeanMarc de La Sablière(France)All 15 members

S/2005/682 (27 October 2005) included the ToRs and thecomposition of the mission.
S/2005/716 (14 November 2005) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.5305 (15 November 2005) was a briefing by the lead of
the Security Council mission to Central Africa.
S/PV.5315 (6 December 2005) was the presentation of thereport of the Security Council mission to Central Africa.

Ethiopia and Eritrea

Sudan and Chad

6–9 November
2005

4–10 June 2006

Ambassador Kenzo
Oshima (Japan), in his
capacity as Chairmanof the Security Council
Working Groupon Peacekeeping
Operations

Japan

Ambassador EmyrJones Parry (UK)All 15 members

S/2005/694 (2 November 2005) included the ToRs and thecomposition of the mission
S/2005/723 (16 November 2005) was the mission’s report.

Also the AU
Headquarters in Addis
Ababa (Ethiopia)

S/2006/341 (26 May 2006) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.
S/PV.5462 (15 June 2006) was the briefing by the leads of theCouncil mission to Sudan, Chad and the AU Headquarters.
S/2006/433 (22 June 2006) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.5478 (29 June 2006) was the presentation of the reportof the Security Council mission to the Sudan and Chad.

DRC

10–12 June 2006

Ambassador JeanMarc de La Sablière(France)

Congo,
Denmark,Ghana, Japan,
Peru, Slovakia,
Tanzania, US

S/2006/344 (30 May 2006) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.
S/PV.5466 (16 June 2006) was a briefing by the lead of the
Security Council mission to the DRC.
S/2006/434 (22 June 2006) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.5482 (6 July 2006) was the presentation of the report ofthe mission on the electoral process in the DRC.

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Afghanistan

11–16 November
2006

Ambassador Kenzo
Oshima (Japan)

Argentina,
Denmark,
France, Greece,
Qatar, Russia,
Slovakia, UK, US

S/2006/875 (9 November 2006) included the composition
and the ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.5570 (22 November 2006) was a briefing by the lead of
the Security Council mission to Afghanistan.
S/2006/935 (4 December 2006) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.5581 (7 December 2006) was the presentation of thereport of the Security Council mission to Afghanistan.

Kosovo25–28 April
2007

Ambassador JohanVerbeke (Belgium)

All 15 members

Also Belgrade (Serbia),
Brussels (Belgium),
Vienna (Austria)

S/2007/220 (19 April 2007) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.
S/PV.5672 (2 May 2007) was a briefing by the lead of the
Security Council mission on the Kosovo issue.
S/2007/256 (4 May 2007) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.5673 (10 May 3007) was a presentation of the report of
the Security Council mission on the Kosovo issue.

Africa: Ethiopia(Addis Ababa), Sudan(Khartoum), Ghana(Accra), Côte d’Ivoire(Abidjan), DRC(Kinshasa)

14–21 June 2007

Addis Ababa, Accra
and Khartoum:
Ambassador EmyrJones Parry (UK) andAmbassador Dumisani
Kumalo (South Africa)

All 15 members

S/PV.5706 (26 June 2007) was a briefing by the leads of theCouncil’s mission to Africa in June.
S/2007/421 and Corr.1 (11 July 2007) were the mission’s reportand its corrigendum containing the joint communiqué from the
16 June 2007 meeting with the AU PSC.

DRC: Ambassador
Jean-Marc de La
Sablière (France)

S/PV.5717 (16 July 2007) was the report of the Security
Council mission to Africa.

Côte d’Ivoire:
Ambassador Jorge
Voto-Bernales (Peru)
Timor-Leste

24–30
November 2007

Ambassador Dumisani
Kumalo (South Africa)

S/2007/347 (11 June 2007) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.

China, Indonesia,
Russia, Slovakia,
US

S/2007/647 (31 October 2007) included the composition andthe ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.5791 (6 December 2007) was a briefing by the lead of
the Security Council mission to Timor-Leste.
S/2007/711 (6 December 2007) was the mission’s report.
S/PV.5801 (13 December 2007) was the presentation of thereport of the Security Council mission to Timor-Leste.

Africa: Djibouti(on Somalia), Sudan,Chad, the DRC andCôte d’Ivoire

31 May–10 June
2008

Somalia and Sudan:
Ambassador Dumisani
Kumalo (South Africa)and Ambassador John
Sawers(UK)

All 15 members

S/2008/347 (30 May 2008) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.
S/PV.5915 (18 June 2008) was a briefing by the leads of the
Security Council mission to Africa.
S/2008/460 (15 July 2008) was the mission’s report.

Chad and the DRC:
Ambassador JeanMaurice Ripert (France)
Côte d’Ivoire:
Ambassador Michel
Kafando (Burkina Faso)
Afghanistan

21–28 November
2008

Ambassador Terzi diSant’Agata (Italy)

All 15 members

S/2008/708 (14 November 2008) included the composition
and the ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.6031 (4 December 2008) was a briefing by the lead of
the Security Council mission to Afghanistan.
S/2008/782 (12 December 2008) was the mission’s report.

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Haiti

11–14 March2009

Ambassador Jorge
Urbina (Costa Rica)

All 15 members

S/2009/139 (10 March 2009) included the composition andthe ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.6093 (19 March 2009) was a briefing by the lead of the
Security Council mission to Haiti.
S/2009/175 (3 April 2009) was the mission’s report.

Africa: African
Union (Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia); Rwanda(Kigali) and DRC(Goma and Kinshasa);and Liberia (Monrovia)

14–21 May 2009

Addis Ababa:
Ambassador John
Sawers (UK) andAmbassador Ruhakana
Rugunda (Uganda)

All 15 members

S/2009/243 (12 May 2009) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.
S/PV.6131 (28 May 2009) was a briefing by the leads of the
Security Council mission to Africa.

Rwanda:Ambassador John
Sawers (UK)

S/2009/303 (11 June 2009) was the mission’s report,
which contained the communiqué of 16 May 2009 from theconsultative meeting between the members of the Security
Council and the PSC.

DRC:
Ambassador JeanMaurice Ripert(France)
Liberia :Ambassador Susan
Rice (US)DRC

13–16 May 2010

Ambassador Gérard
Araud (France)

All 15 members

S/2010/187 (14 April 2010) included the composition and ToRs
for a mission originally scheduled for 16–20 April 2010.
S/2010/187/Add.1 (4 May 2010) included the composition forthe mission rescheduled for 13–16 May 2010.
S/PV.6317 (19 May 2010) was a briefing by the lead of the
Security Council mission to DRC.
S/2010/288 (30 June 2010) was the mission’s report.

Afghanistan

21–24 June 2010

Ambassador Ertuğrul
Apakan (Turkey)

All 15 members

S/2010/325 (14 June 2010) included the composition and theToRs of the mission to Afghanistan.
S/2010/564 (1 November 2010) was the mission’s report.

Uganda and Sudan

4–10 October
2010

Uganda:Ambassador Ruhakana
Rugunda (Uganda)

All 15 members

S/PV.6397 (14 October 2010) was a briefing by the leads of
the Security Council mission to Uganda and Sudan.

Sudan:
Ambassador
Mark Lyall Grant (UK)and Ambassador Susan
Rice (US)Africa: AU (Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia),
Sudan (Khartoum,
Wau, Juba, Malau,
Jebel Kujur way
station) and Kenya(Nairobi) on Somalia

19–26 May 2011

Addis Ababa:
Ambassador Gérard
Araud (France)
Sudan:
Ambassador Susan
Rice (US) andAmbassador Vitaly
Churkin (Russia)
Nairobi: Ambassador
Mark Lyall Grant (UK)and Ambassador Baso
Sangqu (South Africa)

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S/2010/509 (4 October 2010) included the composition andthe ToRs of the mission.

S/2011/7 (7 January 2011) was the mission’s report.

All 15 members

S/2011/319 (18 May 2011) included the composition and ToRsof the mission.
S/PV.6546 (6 June 2011) was a briefing by the leads of the
Security Council mission to Africa.
S/2011/350 (8 June 2011) contained the communiqué ofthe consultative meeting between members of the Security
Council and the PSC.
S/2013/221 (8 April 2013) was the mission’s report.

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Haiti

13–16 February
2012

Ambassador Susan
Rice (US)

14 members:
China wasunable to join the
mission

S/2012/82 (8 February 2012) included the composition and
ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.6724 (28 February 2012) was a briefing by the lead of the
Security Council mission to Haiti.
S/2012/534 (11 July 2012) was the mission’s report.

West Africa: Liberia,
Côte d’Ivoire and theEconomic Communityof West African
States, Sierra Leone

19–23 May 2012

Liberia:
Ambassador
Susan Rice (US)and Ambassador
Mohammed Loulichki(Morocco)

All 15 members

S/2012/344 (18 May 2012) included the composition and
TORs of the mission.
S/PV.6777 (31 May 2012) was a briefing by the leads of the
Security Council mission to West Africa.
S/2014/242 (3 April 2014) was the mission report.

Côte d’Ivoire:
Ambassador Gérard
Araud (France) andAmbassador Kodjo
Menan (Togo);
Sierra Leone:
Ambassador Mark
Lyall Grant (UK) andAmbassador Baso
Sangqu (South Africa)
Timor-Leste

3–6 November
2012

Ambassador Baso
Sangqu (South Africa)

Azerbaijan,
India, Pakistan,Portugal, Togo

S/2012/793 (31 October 2012) included the composition andthe ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.6858 (12 November 2012) was a briefing by the lead of
the Security Council mission to Timor-Leste.
S/2012/889 (28 November 2012) was the mission’s report.

Yemen (Sana’a)

27 January 2013

Ambassador Mark
Lyall Grant (UK)and Ambassador
Mohammed Loulichki(Morocco)

All 15 members

S/2013/61 (25 January 2013) included the composition and theToRs of the mission.
S/PV.6916 (7 February 2013) was a briefing by the leads of the
Security Council mission to Yemen.
S/2013/173 (19 March 2013) was the mission’s report.

Africa: DRC (Kinshasa
and Goma), Rwanda(Kigali and Mutobo
demobilisation camp
for former FDLR
combatants), Uganda(Kampala), African
Union Headquarters(Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia)

3–9 October
2013

DRC:
Counsellor
Alexis Lamek (France)
and Ambassador
Mohammed Loulichki(Morocco)
Rwanda:Ambassador Samantha
Power (US)
Uganda:Ambassador Mark Lyall
Grant (UK)All 15 members

S/2013/579 (27 September 2013) included the composition
and the ToRs of the mission.
S/2013/611 (14 October 2013) was a letter from Rwanda
transmitting the joint communiqué of the seventh annual joint
consultative meeting between members of the Council and thePeace and Security Council of the AU.
S/PV.7045 (21 October 2013) was a briefing by the leads of
the Security Council mission to Africa.
S/2014/341 (13 May 2014) was the mission report.

African Union:
Ambassador Agshin
Mehdiyev (Azerbaijan)
and Ambassador
Eugène-Richard
Gasana (Rwanda)

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Mali (Bamako and
Mopti)

1-3 February
2014

Ambassador Gérard
Araud (France)
Ambassador Banté
Mangaral (Chad)

All 15 members

S/2014/72 (30 January 2014) included the composition andthe ToRs of the missions.
S/PV.7120 (26 February 2014) was a briefing on the Security
Council visit to Mali.
S/2014/173 (11 March 2014) was the mission report.

Belgium, theNetherlands, South
Sudan, Somalia, Kenya

8-13 August
2014

Belgium:
Ambassador Mark Lyall
Grant (UK)All 15 members

S/2014/579 (8 August 2014) included the composition and
ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.7245 (19 August 2014) was a briefing by the leads of the
Security Council mission.

Netherlands:
Ambassador CristiánBarros (Chile) andAmbassador Sylvie
Lucas (Luxembourg)

Mission report not yet available.

South Sudan:
Ambassador Samantha
Power (US and
Ambassador Eugene
Richard Gasana(Rwanda)Somalia:
Ambassador Mark
Lyall Grant (UK) andAmbassador U. Joy
Ogwu (Nigeria)

Haiti

23-25 January
2015

Ambassador CristiánBarros Melet (Chile)and Ambassador
Samantha Power (US)All 15 members

S/2015/40 (19 January 2015) included the composition and
ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.7372 (29 January 2015) was a briefing by the leads of the
Security Council mission.
Mission report not yet available.

CAR, Burundi and AU
Headquarters in Addis
Ababa

10-13 March
2015

CAR:
Ambassador IsmaelAbraão Gaspar
Martins (Angola) andAmbassador François
Delattre (France)

14 members,
Lithuania did notparticipate

S/2015/162 (5 March 2015) included the composition and
ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.7372 (18 March 2015) was a briefing by the leads of the
Security Council mission.
S/2015/503 (30 June 2015) was the mission’s report.

Burundi:Ambassador IsmaelAbraão Gaspar
Martins (Angola),
Ambassador François
Delattre (France) andAmbassador Samantha
Power (US)Burundi and the AU
Headquarters in Addis
Ababa

21-23 January
2016

Burundi:Ambassador IsmaelAbraão Gaspar
Martins (Angola),
Ambassador François
Delattre (France) andAmbassador Samantha
Power (US)All 15 members

S/2016/55 (20 January 2016) included the composition and
ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.7615 (29 January 2016) was a briefing by the leads of the
Security Council mission.
S/PV.7652 (18 March 2016) was a briefing on Burundi.

Addis Ababa:
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West Africa: Mali,
Guinea-Bissau and
UNOWAS in Dakar

3-9 March 2016

Mali:
Ambassador François
Delattre (France),
Ambassador Fodé
Seck (Senegal)

All 15 members

S/2016/215 (3 March 2016) included the composition and
ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.7647 (16 March 2016) was a briefing on the Security
Council visit to Mali, Guinea-Bissau and UNOWAS.

Guinea-Bissau:
Ambassador IsmaelAbraão Gaspar Martins(Angola), Ambassador
Fodé Seck (Senegal)

S/2016/511 (11 May 2016) was the mission’s report.

UNOWAS:
Ambassador IsmaelAbraão Gaspar Martins(Angola)Somalia, Kenya andEgypt

17-22 May 2016

Somalia:
Ambassador Matthew
Rycroft (UK)All 15 members

S/2016/456 (18 May 2016) included the composition and ToRsof the mission.
S/PV.7696 (25 May 2016) was a briefing on the visit.

Kenya:
Ambassador Amr
Abdellatif Aboulatta(Egypt)Mission report not yet available.

Egypt:
Ambassador Amr
Abdellatif Aboulatta(Egypt)South Sudan andEthiopia (meeting at
the AU Headquarters
and with the Chairof IGAD, President
Hailemariam Desalegn
of Ethiopia, at thestate house)

2-5 September
2016

Ambassador Samantha
Power (US) andAmbassador Fodé
Seck (Senegal)

All 15 members

S/2016/757 (2 September 2016) included the composition and
ToRs of the mission.

DRC and Angola

11-14 November
2016

Ambassador Francois
Delattre/Ambassador
Alexis Lamek (France)
and Ambassador
Ismael Abraão Martins(Angola)All 15 members

S/2016/948 (10 November 2016) contained the mission’s
composition and its terms of reference.
S/PV.7819 (23 November 2016) was a briefing by the mission’s
co-leads.
S/PRST/2016/18 (5 December 2016) was a presidential
statement adopted in the aftermath of the visit.

Lake Chad BasinRegion (Cameroon,
Chad, Niger andNigeria)

1-7 March 2017

Ambassador Francois
Delattre (France),
Ambassador Fodé
Seck (Senegal) andAmbassador Matthew
Rycroft (UK)All 15 members

S/2017/181 (1 March 2017) contained the mission’s composition
and its terms of reference.
S/PV.7894 (9 March 2017) was a briefing by the mission’s
co-leads.
S/2017/403 (5 May 2017) was the mission’s report.

Colombia

3-5 May 2017

Ambassador Matthew
Rycroft (UK) andAmbassador Elbio
Rosselli (Uruguay)

All 15 members(13 permanent
representatives
and two deputy
permanent
representatives)

S/2017/363 (25 April 2017) contained the mission’s
composition and its terms of reference.
S/PV.7941 (16 May 2017) was a briefing by the mission’s
co-leads.
S/PRST/2017/6 (11 May 2017) was a presidential statement
adopted in the aftermath of the visit.

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Haiti

22-24 June 2017

Ambassador Sacha
Sergio Llorenty Soliz(Bolivia)

All 15 members

S/2017/511 (15 June 2017) contained the mission’s composition
and its terms of reference.
S/PV.7994 (30 June 2017) was a briefing on the Security
Council mission to Haiti.

Addis Ababa

6-8 September
2017

Ambassador Tekeda
Alemu (Ethiopia)

All 15 members

S/2017/757 (1 September 2017) contained the mission’s
composition and its terms of reference.
S/PV.8043 (12 September 2017) was a briefing on the visit.
S/2017/1002 (30 November 2017) was the mission’s report.

Sahel Region (Mali,
Mauritania andBurkina Faso)

Afghanistan

19-22 October2017

12-15 January
2018

Ambassador Tekeda
Alemu (Ethiopia),
Ambassador Francois
Delattre (France)
and Ambassador
Sebastiano Cardi (Italy)

All 15 members

S/2017/871 (16 October 2017) included the composition and
ToRs of the mission.
S/PV.8077 (26 October 2017) was a briefing on the visit.

Ambassador Kairat
Umarov (Kazakhstan)

S/2018/37 (12 January 2018) contained the mission’s
composition and its terms of reference.
S/PV.8158 (17 January 2018) was a briefing on the visit.
S/2018/419 (3 May 2018) was the mission’s report.

Bangladesh andMyanmar

DRC

Côte d’Ivoire andGuinea-Bissau

Mali and Burkina Faso

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28 April-2 May
2018

5-7 October2018

13-17 February
2019

21 to 25 March
2019

Ambassador Mansour
Al-Otaibi (Kuwait),
Ambassador Gustavo
Meza-Cuadra (Peru)
and Ambassador Karen
Pierce (UK)

14 members,Côte d’Ivoire did
not participate

Ambassador François
Delattre (France),
Ambassador Job
Obiang Esono
Mbengono(Equatorial Guinea)
and Ms. Verónica
Cordova Soria,
Deputy Permanent
Representative of the
Plurinational State of
Bolivia

All 15 members

Ambassador Kacou
Houadja Léon Adom
(Côte d’Ivoire) andAmbassador Anatolio
Ndong Mba (Equatorial
Guinea)All 15 members

Ambassador Kacou
Houadja Léon Adom
(Côte d’Ivoire),
Abassador François
Delattre (France) andAmbassador Christoph
Heusgen (Germany)

All 15 members
and Chair of
the EU Politicaland Security
Committee
Sofie FromEmmesberger

S/2018/391 (26 April 2018) contained the mission’s
composition and its terms of reference.
S/PV.8255 (14 May 2018) was a briefing on the visit.

S/2018/890 (3 October 2018) contained the mission’s
composition and its terms of reference.
S/PV.8369 (11 October 2018) was a briefing on the visit.
S/2018/1030 (15 November 2018) was the mission’s report.

S/2019/123 (11 February 2019) contained the terms ofreference and the mission’s composition.
S/PV.8470 (26 February 2019) was a briefing on the mission.
S/2019/303 (10 April 2019) was the mission’s report.
S/2019/252 (20 March 2019) contained the terms of reference
and the mission’s composition.
S/PV.8492 (27 March 2019) was a briefing on the mission.

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Kuwait and Iraq

28 to 29 June2019

Ambassador Mansour
Al-Otaibi (Kuwait) andAmbassador Jonathan
Cohen (US)All 15 members

S/2019/533 (27 June 2019) contained the terms of reference
and the mission’s composition.
SC/13869 (30 June 2019) was a press statement on the
mission.
S/PV.8571 (11 July 2019) was a briefing on the visiting mission.

Colombia

11-14 July 2019Ambassador Gustavo
Meza-Cuadra (Peru)
and Ambassador
Jonathan Allen (UK)All 15 members

S/2019/557 (10 July 2019) contained the terms of reference
and the mission’s composition.
S/PV.8580 (19 July 2019) was a briefing on the visiting mission.
SC/13896 (23 July 2019) was a press statement on the
mission.

Ethiopia and South
Sudan

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19-23 October
2019

Ambassador Kelly
Craft (United Statesof America) andAmbassador Jerry
Matthews Matjila(South Africa)

All 15 members

S/2019/825 (16 October 2019) contained the mission’s
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