Wrap Up Session (Non-Paper)
December 2002
On 20 December 2002, in an open meeting, the Security Council will
hold its year-end Wrap Up Session. This non-paper is intended to serve
as a general guide for that session.
Objectives
The Presidency proposes that members of the Council
concentrate on two areas:
First, assess the main contributions, political relevance,
difficulties and dilemmas of the Security Council using examples of
the work accomplished during the year 2002.
Second, identify the main dilemmas and opportunities
of the Security Council for the year 2003.
Scope
This session is not an opportunity to
review the particularities of a specific situation or situations.
The Council reviews specific issues in great detail every month and
members of the Council have plenty of opportunities during the year
to present their views on these situations.
Rather the session is on the Security Council per
se as it addresses those situations. In other words, the year-end
Wrap-Up is not envisioned as a thematic debate but as an institutional
debate that builds on experiences of the year 2002 and projects its
priorities for the year 2003.
Participation of Members of the Security Council
The meeting is an important opportunity for the outgoing
non-permanent members of the Council (Ireland, Mauritius, Norway,
Singapore, and Colombia) to present their final views according to
the objectives stated before. Other members may also find it useful
to present perspectives as they plan for their participation next
year.
Statements of the members of the Security Council are
expected to be brief (no more that 10 minutes), frank, focused and
pointed, preferably, on those issues outlined in this paper. As President
of the Council, Colombia does not believe that this meeting is an
opportunity to reiterate national positions on substantive items of
the agenda of the year or the month.
Format and Duration of the Meeting
The year-end Wrap-Up Session will be an open meeting.
The session will begin with statements by the representatives of the
out-going non-permanent members of the Security Council followed by
statements of the representatives of other members of the Council.
The order of both groups will be done by secret ballots.
