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UNITED NATIONS, June 2 (KUNA) -- Security Council President Emmanuel
Issoze-Ngondet of Gabon on Thursday said the Council will discuss the pending
issues between Kuwait and Iraq, mainly the missing persons and stolen
property, on June 22.
He made the announcement at a press conference to outline the Council's
programme of work for the month of June following a Council closed-door
meeting during which the members examined the programme and approved it.
Gennady Tarasov, the Secretary-General's High-Level Coordinator for the
Kuwait missing and property, is expected to brief the Council on June 22 on
the Secretary-General's report on the issue.
The report itself is scheduled to be circulated on June 16, according to
the Council's programme of work.
Issoze-Ngondet also announced that on June 15 there will be a meeting
between the Security Council and the High-Level panel of the African Union
(AU) on Libya.
The panel was established by the AU to follow up on the efforts to be made
on finding a political solution to the Libyan crisis.
The panel is made of five African States, South Africa, Uganda, Mali,
Mauritania and the Republic of Congo. It was formed by the latest AU
extraordinary session held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He said it was agreed that this panel would meet at the ministerial level
with the Security Council in order to have a "constructive dialogue on the AU
road map and the steps it has taken in order to find a lasting way out of the
Libyan crisis, above all when it comes to establishing a credible and
verifiable cease-fire."
The Council-AU ministerial one-day meeting, he explained, will be in three
sections: a public debate, followed by private consultations and then an
interactive dialogue between the 5-member AU panel and the members of the
Council.
He also said that the UN Special Envoy on Libya Abdel Elah Al-Khatib is
scheduled to return to Libya this weekend and he "should be in a position to
report to us during the week, whether in person or via video link."
In the meantime, the Egyptian Mission to the UN denied that Egyptian
Foreign Minister Nabeel El-Arabi is attending the Council ministerial meeting
here on June 15. (end)
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