Consideration of the draft report of the Security Council to the General Assembly - Security Council, 10156th meeting

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The 10,156 meeting of the Security Council is called to order.
The provisional agenda for this meeting is consideration of the draft report of the Security Council to the General Assembly The agenda is adopted.
The Security Council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda.
The Security Council will proceed to the consideration of its annual report to the General Assembly for the period of 1st January to 31st of December 2025.
The draft report has been provided to the members of the Council.
The introduction of the draft report was prepared by the delegation of Pakistan with the participation of other members of the Council.
The body of the report was prepared by the Secretariat.
I would like to express appreciation to Pakistan and the Secretariat for their respective contributions.
I would like to point out that the draft report was prepared in accordance with the note by the president of 13th December 2024, as stroke 2024 stroke 507.
I now give the floor to the representative of Pakistan, whose delegation was responsible for drafting the introduction of this year's annual report.
I give the floor to the representative for Pakistan, for the statement, for the floor.
Thank you, Mr.
President.
I believe the absence of most of the press here does not diminish the importance of this annual report.
President Pakistan has the honor to introduce the draft annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly for the period 1st January to 31st December 2025, and we trust the report will receive the unanimous support of Council members in accordance with article 24, paragraph three of the charter.
The Security Council submits an annual report on its activities to the General Assembly for its consideration and discussion by the wider membership.
We regard this process as a vital instrument of transparency, accountability and institutional dialogue between the Security Council and the wider UN membership in its capacity as president of the Security Council for July 2025, Pakistan was entrusted with coordinating and preparing the introduction to this report.
Our objective was not to have a perfunctory document, but a substantive and analytical account that faithfully reflects the council's work deliberations and challenges and outcomes during the reporting period.
We also sought to provide greater clarity and context regarding the evolving situations confronting the international peace and security in which the council works.
The report before you is comprehensive.
It highlights that during 2025, the Security Council remained actively and meaningfully engaged in addressing a wide range of pressing issues related to the maintenance of international peace and security.
The council dealt with complex and interrelated crises across different regions of the world, and its agenda also reflected the gravity and scale of contemporary threats to international peace and security, including ongoing and new conflicts, emerging threats humanitarian crises and the range of responses from protection of civilians to peacekeeping, peace building and conflict prevention, and peaceful settlement of disputes and cooperation with regional and subregional organizations.
Despite persistent conflicts, growing humanitarian emergencies, and heightened geopolitical tensions, which at times complicated efforts to advance political settlements and collective action, the council continued to play a central role in promoting stability, supporting peace processes and reinforcing multilateral cooperation in pursuit of durable peace and security.
As for the process of preparing this report, Pakistan endeavored to follow an open, constructive and inclusive approach in this regard in line with Presidential Note 507 and General Assembly Resolution 790327 and in coordination with the president of the General Assembly and informal meeting of the wider membership, was convened on 16th January 2026.
The exchange of views was candid, constructive and forward looking.
The perspectives shared by member States proved valuable in enhancing and strengthening the quality of the report, and we also followed closely the views expressed by Non-council members at the wrapping and wrap up sessions that take place every month.
We are pleased that negotiations on the introductory section were concluded in a spirit of cooperation and mutual accommodation, enabling agreement on the text at an early stage in February.
This achievement was made possible by constructive engagement and hard work of all council members, including our outgoing colleagues in Algeria, Guyana, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and the Republic of Korea.
Therefore, we deeply appreciate all of you for your substantive cooperation, support and contribution.
This also demonstrates that despite divergence on specific issues, the Security Council can work collectively and responsibly in discharging its responsibilities under the charter, and we are also grateful to the Secretariat, particularly the Security Council Affairs Division, for their professionalism, dedicated support and editorial advice throughout this process.
President.
Whereas best effort has gone into this report to make it as comprehensive, objective and analytical as possible.
We believe the council members and the wider membership would appreciate that there is always a room for more.
This is an ongoing and collective effort.
We look forward to hearing the views of the wider membership on this report, and on ways to further strengthen the relationship between the Security Council and the General Assembly, in line with the UN charter and the principles of transparency, accountability and multilateral cooperation.
I thank you.
I thank the representative of Pakistan for the statement.
I thank the delegation of Pakistan and other delegations.
And, ambassador, Your Excellency, yourself, for the contributions made in this regard.
I would like to thank the Scout for the contributions they made.
My understanding is that the Council is ready to proceed to the adoption of the draft annual report.
May I take it that the draft report is adopted by the Council? There being no objection, it is so decided.
This decision will be reflected in a note by the president of the Council of the Security Council to be issued as document at stroke 2026.
Stroke 426.
The meeting is adjourned.
The 10,157th meeting of the Security Council is called to order.
The provisional agenda for this meeting is the situation in Libya.
The agenda is adopted.
In accordance with rule 37 of the councils Provisional Rules of Procedure.
I invite the representative of Libya to participate in this meeting.
It is so decided.
In accordance with rule 39 of the councils Provisional Rules of Procedure I invite Miss Najam Shamim Khan, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, to participate in this meeting.
It is so decided.
The Council.
The Security Council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda.
I now give the floor to Deputy Prosecutor Najam Shamim Khan.
Mr.
president, thank you for the opportunity to brief the Security Council today.
Please allow me to also express my thanks to His Excellency, the Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations for his attendance.
I regret that I am again unable to join you in the Council due to the non-issuance of a United States visa required for my travel to deliver my briefing in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1970.
Mr.
president, excellencies this week represented a true landmark in the fulfilment of the mandate set by this Council in relation to the situation in Libya.
It was my honour this Tuesday to address the pre-trial chamber, together with the OTP Libya Unified Team Opening the confirmation hearing in relation to Mr.
Khalid Mohammed Ali Al-hashemi in the first judicial proceedings stemming from this referral, Mr.
L is accused of 17 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out principally in Mitiga prison, including in the women's section of the prison over which Mr.
L had direct control here in the ICC courtroom in the presence of victims before civil society advocates, together with representatives of the government of Libya and so many committed to justice.
We were able together to substantially undermine the impunity that has protected the perpetrators of crimes for too long.
Over three days, Mr.
L faced the accounts.
The voices of many Libyans directly affected by his alleged crimes, the voices of women, men and children who, in their own words, dared not believe that this day would come.
Voices that told of the most deep suffering of being shot and whipped, of being suspended from the ceiling, dragged by their hair, raped and beaten until they bled.
Of children witnessing the violence being inflicted on their mothers, and of those children in turn being beaten, tortured, shot and raped.
Black African migrants enslaved, held in dehumanising conditions and subjected to extreme physical, psychological, sexual and reproductive violence, including torture.
The actions of Mr.
Khalid Al Hajri and the Rada militia are not the actions of a legitimate law enforcement agency, and Mitiga was not a normal prison.
It was a system designed to inflict extreme pain, deep humiliation, and ultimately to destroy the lives of those detained.
As the court heard this week, Mr.
Khalid Al Hajri was at the centre of this abuse.
Mr.
president, excellencies, we know from those women who have given their voice to this case and from so many Libyans in The Hague with us this week, that simply to hear these accounts being put to Mr.
L history in a court of law has brought some measure of justice, of healing, a feeling that finally, the equal value of their lives is recognised.
But this is just the beginning of the process of justice.
Following submissions by the victims legal representatives and the defence the confirmation hearing has now concluded.
In the event that charges are confirmed, our office stands ready to commence trial promptly.
We remain focused on ensuring that this process ultimately leads to the full recognition of victims experiences through the conviction of Mr.
L history.
Mr.
president excellencies.
As we reflect on this significant.
If only the first step towards justice for many Libyans, it is important to underline how this hidden story of Mitiga was finally brought into the open.
This would not have happened without the courage of the victims who called for truth and justice for.
What happened behind those dark walls.
Our collaboration with civil society has also been central to this case, and continues to be a core pillar of all our activities.
I wish to extend our sincere appreciation to all victims groups and civil society organisations involved in documentation efforts, who have contributed so fundamentally to what we saw in court this week.
Our commitment to continually build and strengthen our relationship with civil society is as firm as ever.
In the last reporting period, our office had over 186 engagements with CSO partners, including through the virtual roundtable with over 35 organisations that I was pleased to participate in recently.
And in those discussions, I have been clear the office is working intensively to ensure that the presence of Mr.
L history in the ICC courtroom reflects only the start of a much more profound journey towards meaningful justice, as reflected in my report, the Libya Unified Team is on the ground in many locations, collecting a wide range of information and evidence in support of our investigations into crimes related to the 2014 to 2020 operations, as well as further expanding accountability efforts in relation to crimes committed in detention facilities in both the West and the East of Libya.
Indeed, currently, a total of nine public arrest warrants in the situation await execution.
There remain other hidden stories of intense cruelty in Libya, which together we can also bring into the light to those responsible for alleged Rome statute crimes in Libya, to those carrying them out, to those facilitating them and ordering them.
We have a simple message, no, that our office remains committed to delivering accountability for your acts, and we are moving at a speed across our lines of inquiry to ensure the rights of those that you have mistreated are vindicated in a court of law.
As we saw here in The Hague this week, Mr.
President, excellencies, our report also recognises the encouraging recommitment of the government of Libya to engage with the court.
We have, in our report referred to Libya's Article 123 declaration under the Rome Statute, which was made to the court last year.
This has led