S/2020/1273 Security Council

In accordance with the procedure agreed upon by the members of the Security Council in the light of the extraordinary circumstances caused by the coronavirus disease pandemic, as set out in the letter dated 27 March 2020 from the President of the Security Council addressed to the members of the Council (S/2020/253), I would like to draw your attention to the following. The members of the Council have discussed a draft resolution, submitted by Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, in connection with the agenda item “Peacebuilding and sustaining peace”. That draft resolution has been put into blue (S/2020/1246, see enclosure). In my capacity as President of the Security Council, I hereby put the above- mentioned draft resolution to a vote. The non-extendable 24-hour voting period for that draft resolution will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, 18 December 2020 and expire at 10 a.m. on Monday, 21 December 2020. Please submit your vote (in favour, against or abstention) on the draft resolution and possible explanation of vote by sending the Officer-in-charge of the Security Council Affairs Division of the Secretariat (sutterlin@un.org) a letter signed by the Permanent Representative or Chargé d’affaires a.i. within the non-extendable 24-hour voting period set out above. It is my intention to circulate a letter listing the outcome of the vote within three hours of the conclusion of the 24-hour voting period. I also intend to convene a video-teleconference of the Security Council to announce the outcome of the voting shortly after the conclusion of the voting period, on the afternoon of Monday, 21 December 2020.