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PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON DECEMBER WORK PROGRAMME
The Security Council work programme for December would contain 18 open meetings — including 2 debates, 11 briefings and 5 meetings to adopt draft resolutions — as well as 20 closed consultations, Council President Vitaly Churkin (Russian Federation) said at Headquarters today.
At a press conference where he briefed on his country’s December presidency, he said the Council would adopt about 10 draft resolutions in addition to issuing a number of presidential statements, expressing hope that the Council would have concluded its work by 22 December.
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Responding to a question about the Palestinian application for United Nations membership, he said the expectation was that the matter would be acrimonious, but the contrary was true. Things had evolved in a very harmonious way, he said, estimating that the Council was prepared to vote on the matter as soon as the Palestinian side indicated their preferred date, and as soon as a draft resolution, to be prepared by Lebanon, was submitted. Neither had happened yet, he noted.
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Download Document Files: https://unispal.un.org/pdfs/PrConf_SecCo-021211f.pdf
Document Type: French text, Press Conference
Document Sources: Security Council, United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI)
Country: Russian Federation
Subject: PLO/Palestine, Palestine question, Statehood-related
Publication Date: 02/12/2011