Agenda Items in 1993-1995 (Chapter VIII of the Repertoire)
Chapter VIII of the Repertoire provides an overview of the role of the Council in its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security on each of the agenda items that it is seized of. It is a record of the origins of the Council’s involvement in a particular situation and how it interpreted and applied the Charter and its Provisional Rules of Procedure in connection with this situation.
This chapter includes summaries of public discussions in the Council, reports and other documents considered during Council meetings, as well as the full text (1946-1999) or summaries (2000-present) of all resolutions, presidential statements or other decisions taken by the Council on a particular agenda item.
While these studies examine all decisions of the Council and the immediate constitutional and procedural background to those decisions, discussions that relate to specific Charter articles or to the Council’s provisional rules of procedure will generally have been included in case studies in other chapters, for instance on pacific settlement of disputes, Chapter VII of the Charter, and regional arrangements. As a result, more details on specific agenda items are available in other chapters and, from 2000 onwards, cross-references are provided.
For ease of reference, agenda items – the topics under consideration by the Council – have been organized either by region (Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe and Middle East), or by general/thematic items (such as “Children in armed conflict”). For a short description of each agenda item based on the content of the Repertoire, please see the studies by region and topic pages.
Introduction and table of contents
Africa
2. The question of South Africa
3. The situation concerning Western Sahara
5. The situation concerning Rwanda
8. The situation in Mozambique
11. The situation in Sierra Leone
Americas
12. Central America : efforts towards peace
13. The question concerning Haiti
Asia
15. Items relating to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
16. Items relating to the situation in Tajikistan
17. The situation in Afghanistan
Europe
19. Items relating to the situation between Armenia and Azerbaijan
21. Items relating to the situation in the former Yugoslavia
Middle East
23. Items relating to the situation between Iraq and Kuwait
24. The situation in the Middle East
25. The situation in the occupied Arab territories
26. The situation in the Republic of Yemen
General Issues
27. Items relating to the agenda for peace: preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peacekeeping
28. Security of United Nations operations
29. Security Council action regarding the terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires and London
31. Commemoration of the end of the Second World War in Europe
32. Commemoration of the end of the Second World War in the Asia-Pacific