Presidential statements
In the Presidential Statements the President of the Security Council summarizes the Council's standpoint on certain questions and its program for further action. These documents are less formal than the meeting records and the resolutions but serve as complimentary information.
Find Presidential Statements
The Statements carry the following document symbols:
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S/ Security Council |
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-/PRST Presidential Statement |
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-/year |
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-/consecutive number |
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Ex. S/PRST/2001/31 Security Council, Presidential Statement, 2001, no 31 |
- Presidential Statements. These documents are issued as individual documents. From 1994 onwards they are posted in fulltext the Security Council website
- The Statements in print for the period 1946-1992 are included in the UN collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala.
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