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Security Council to meet on Syria, UN Charter, peacekeeping

Xinhua, February 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Security Council will hold meetings on Syria and open debates on the UN Charter and peace building, Venezuela's ambassador to the UN said Monday.

Rafael Ramirez, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council for February, said two meetings on Syria will be held in the latter part of February, which are to discuss Syria's humanitarian situation and the chemical weapon probe there.

The council will also hold two open debates, one on post-conflict peace building and the other on the UN Charter. The latter one will be presided "by the highest level of our country," Ramirez said.

The envoy also said that some members of the council are working on a resolution pertaining to nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear testing by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in early January.

On Burundi, Ramirez said no decision has been taken on how to act "but we continue to monitor the situation very closely."

The presidency of the council rotates among its 15 member states based on the English-language alphabetical order of the countries' names on a monthly basis. Endi