2011-01-06 04:29:54 Xinhua Web Editor: Jiang
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA ASSUMES PRESIDENCY OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL
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Ambassador Ivan Barbalic
, President of the UN Security Council
for January 2011
(photo: Cia Pak, UN Scan News
for Webpublicapress New York) |
NEW YORK (UN - 6. January - Xinhua) The UN Security Council will focus on the pressing issues of Sudan and Haiti in January, the council president announced here Wednesday.
The announcement came as Ivan Barbalic, ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the UN who holds the rotating Council presidency for January, was briefing the reporters on the program of work of the 15-nation Council for this month.
"For Bosnia and Herzegovina it's a great honor and privilege to be in the Security Council and in the month of January to have this opportunity to preside over the Security Council," Barbalic said. Bosnia and Hezergovina is one of the 10 non-permanent members of the Security Council.
The situation in Sudan, which is facing a referendum that could create separate countries in the south and the north, will be an important focus of the Council this month, Barbalic said, adding that on Thursday the Council will hear a briefing from the special representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), Haile Menkerios, as well as former president of Tanzania Benjamin Mkapa, who is currently head of the UN's panel on the Sudan referendum.