S/PV.9811 Security Council

The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2024/903, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements before the voting.

Somalia is undergoing a critical period in its security transition. In October, the Security Council endorsed the United Nations Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia taking over responsibilities from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia and beginning its transition to a United Nations country team. The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia is due to be replaced by its successor Mission, the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia, at the start of next year. We are grateful for the constructive Council negotiations on the mandate yesterday. We are also grateful for the continued efforts of the Somali authorities to successfully deliver its security transition, with the support of the United Nations, the African Union, international partners and the Council. In the context of those transitions, the text we have presented for adoption today (S/2024/903) provides stability for the functioning of the Al-Shabaab sanctions regime, maintaining the current provisions until the end of February 2025. In the meantime, we look forward to consulting stakeholders in the coming weeks to consider the best shape of that vital regime, ensuring it supports our collective effort to degrade the threat posed by Al-Shabaab. We now turn our attention back to the mandate of the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia, whereby we look forward to maintaining our close collaboration as a Council in support of the next stage in Somalia’s security transition.

I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now.

The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2762 (2024).