Part I (formerly 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 part 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 in meetings 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

Consideration of questions under the responsibility of the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security

Table of Contents

Africa

1.  The situation concerning Western Sahara

2.  The situation in Somalia

3.  The situation in the Great Lakes region

4.  The situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

5.  The situation in the Central African Republic

6.  Central African region

7.  Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan and South Sudan

8.  Peace consolidation in West Africa  

9.  Peace and security in Africa

10. The situation in Libya 

11. The situation in Mali

Americas

12. The question concerning Haiti

13. Identical letters dated 19 January 2016 from the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council (S/2016/53) 

Asia

14. The situation in Afghanistan

15. The situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

16. The situation in Myanmar

17. Letter dated 13 September 2022 from the Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2022/688)

For items relating to non-proliferation and the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, please see "Items relating to non-proliferation" under the Thematic section below.

Europe

18.  The situation in Cyprus

19.  Items relating to the situation in the former Yugoslavia

  A.  The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

  B.  Security Council Resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998), 1203 (1998), 1239 (1999), and 1244 (1999)

20.  Maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine

Middle East

21. The situation in the Middle East

22. The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question

23. The situation concerning Iraq

Thematic issues

24. United Nations peacekeeping operations

25. International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

26. Children and armed conflict

27. Protection of civilians in armed conflict

28. Small arms

29. Women and peace and security

30. Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts

31. Briefings

32. Security Council mission

33. The promotion and strengthening of the rule of law in the maintenance of international peace and security

34. Items relating to non-proliferation

  A.  Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

  B.  Non-proliferation

  C.  Non-proliferation/Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

35.  Peacebuilding and sustaining peace

36. Threats to international peace and security

37. Maintenance of international peace and security

38. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations in maintaining international peace and security