The Assistant Secretary General, Danilo Turk, briefed the Council on new developments since the report was submitted.

The head of mission was also briefed on the efforts undertaken by MONUC and ONUB regarding child protection.

The Minister was briefed by the police authorities on the strategic challenges that the police had been confronted with.

The mission was briefed by United Nations agencies and non governmental organizations on the process thus far and the challenges faced.

The Working Group convened 10 informal meetings in 2005 and was briefed by invited experts on different sanctions related issues at five of them.

The working group has benefited greatly from the views and suggestions of those who have graciously briefed it and also from those who have briefed the other committees, particularly the CTC.

At the meeting with the working group on transition issues, the Group was briefed by Ms. Margareta Wahlstrom, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, returning from Burundi.

The Security Council will be briefed on developments in late April 2005.

But critically, they're briefed about the rules of the game in separate rooms.

In this framework, the Council was briefed by Jan Pronk, Special Representative of the Secretary General and head of the United Nations Advance Mission in the Sudan.

On 15 February, the Security Council was briefed at informal consultations on the situation between Ethiopia and Eritrea by Hédi Annabi, Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations.

It briefed them on its visits to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi.

The Committee will be briefed by Ms. Schöpp Schilling on the results of the meeting.

In Kinshasa and Bujumbura, the mission was briefed on the actions MONUC and ONUB had taken to address cases and allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse over the past year.

On 17 September, the Security Council was briefed by the Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, Mr. Kieran Prendergast, on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.

The FFM travelled to Stepanakert Khankendi on 30 January 2005 where it was briefed by the Nagorno Karabakh authorities, who provided it with position papers, newspaper articles and additional maps.

On 14 July 2004, BIA issued a briefing schedule and the case was fully briefed, but BIA has not issued a decision on Mr. Ali's case as of January 2005.

And they came down on the side of open publication, which is the right approach we've briefed the White House, we've briefed members of Congress, we've tried to take and push the policy issues in parallel with the scientific advances.

The Acting Executive Chairman briefed the Commissioners on the activities of UNMOVIC since their last meeting.

Ambassador Belinga Eboutou briefed the Council accordingly on 18 December 2003, and a report of the Working Group to this effect was issued on 22 January 2004 (S 2003 1197, annex).

Mr. Wolfensohn briefed the Quartet principals on his first round of talks with the parties in the region.

The Committee has met 10 times since I last briefed the Council. Half of those meetings were formal.

On 4 April, the President briefed the press on the work programme of the Council for this month.

Ms. Patterson briefed the Council on the efforts and progress of the Multinational Force in fulfilling its mandate.

Finally, the independent expert was briefed by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the discussions that took place in the relevant debates at the Third Committee after his appearance.

Mr. Annabi also briefed the Council on the latest development of disarmament and community reinsertion (DCR) programme in Ituri.

The Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications was briefed on the work done and on progress made on the fourth revision of the Standard International Trade Classification on its meeting in June 2005.

The mission was briefed in Kinshasa, Mbuji Mayi and Kamina by the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) and in Bujumbura by the United Nations Operation in Burundi (ONUB).

At its meeting on 22 July 2005, the Working Group was briefed on the issue of monitoring mechanisms by five monitoring experts Abdoulaye Cissoko, Jean Luc Gallet, Wilson Kalumba, Alex Vines and Jean Pierre Witty.

On 19 April, the Council was briefed at informal consultations by Yuli Vorontsov, the High level Coordinator on the issue of the repatriation or return of all Kuwaiti and third country national or their remains.

The Team has briefed CTED on its proposed document and information management system to which they too will have access.

The High Commissioner attended a later meeting with the mandate holders to be briefed on the outcome of their discussion.

Reports of special procedures should be put before the Council or it should be briefed by mandate holders, where appropriate.

On 27 January, the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, briefed the Council on the humanitarian situation in Africa.

At its meeting on 2 June 2005, the Working Group was briefed on the issue of the implementation and enforcement of sanctions by five invited experts David Cortright, Juan Larrain, Marja Lehto, George Lopez and Anthonius de Vries.

Lastly, at its meeting on 22 November 2005, the Working Group was briefed on the issue of the fight against terrorism through the means of sanctions by four experts Sue Eckert, Heraldo Muñoz, Nico Schrijver and Michail Vitsentzatos.

On 25 January, during informal consultations, the Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations briefed the Council on the situation in Côte d'Ivoire.

The Council has already been briefed on the assassination of George Hawi on 21 June, and I will not dwell on it.

In addition, the Council was briefed about the recently concluded World Food Summit held in Rome at the FAO and which had been attended by 6.600 people from 183 countries with 73 Heads of State and 1600 reporters present.

In both locations, MINUSTAH and other United Nations staff briefed them on the political, security, human rights and socio economic situation of the area.

IAMB has been briefed by a representative of the United States Department of Defense, who provided additional clarifications regarding the status of the audit.

Mr. Rock also briefed the Group on his participation at the Canadian Conference of the Haitian Diaspora, held in Montreal on 10 11 December 2004.

The mission briefed the President and Foreign Minister on the outcome of its visits to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Uganda and Rwanda.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs briefed the Meeting on its website on the coordination of outer space activities within the United Nations system (www.uncosa.unvienna.org).

The representatives of the Secretary General briefed the Advisory Committee on the current context and status of the operation following the events of November 2004.