S/2020/624 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 all members of the Council (S/2020/253), I would like to draw your attention to the following issue. The members of the Council have discussed the draft resolution submitted by the Russian Federation and the United States of America, in connection with the agenda item “The situation in the Middle East” (S/2020/595). The draft resolution has been put in blue (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 this draft resolution will begin at 2 p.m. on Friday, 26 June 2020, and will expire at 2 p.m. on Monday, 29 June 2020. Please submit your vote (in favour, against or abstention) on the draft resolution, as well as your possible explanation of vote, by sending the Director of the Security Council Affairs Division in the United Nations Secretariat (egian@ 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 vote shortly after the conclusion of the voting period, on the afternoon of Monday, 29 June 2020.