S/PV.4326 Security Council

The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Council is meeting in accordance with the understanding reached in its prior consultations. Members of the Council have before them document S/2001/546, letter dated 31 May 2001 from the Chairman of the Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations addressed to the President of the Security Council, submitting the first report of the Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations. I should like to draw the attention of the members of the Council to document S/2001/535, letter dated 30 May 2001 from the representatives of Argentina, Canada, Ghana, India, Jordan, the Netherlands and New Zealand to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council. Members of the Council also have before them document S/2001/573, which contains the text of a draft resolution prepared in the course of the Council’s prior consultations. I would like to take this opportunity to commend again the excellent leadership provided by Ambassador Curtis Ward of Jamaica, as Chairman of the Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations, which negotiated this text. It is my understanding that the Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. Unless I hear any objection, I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. There being no objection, it is so decided.

There were 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 1353 (2001). The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on the agenda.