The monitors also warned in their report to the U.N Security Council that the sexual violence by Mali’s troops and their foreign security partners remained “systematic.”
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Buhari made the demand in his address at the UN General Assembly on Friday, in New York.
The Netherlands, backed by France, Germany, Britain and the US, asked the 15-member council’s Libya sanctions committee to impose a global asset freeze and travel ban on six people.
The Anadolu news agency reported that the decision of Ankara was made on the ground of the February resolution of the UN Security Council, which prolongs the sanctions imposed on Yemen.
The organization also asked the Council to: “Treat the atrocities by herdsmen as terrorist acts, in line with the UN Security Council resolution 2349 (2017), which addresses Boko Haram’s presence in the Lake Chad Basin and calls on all states to combat all forms and manifestations of terrorism. Declaring attacks by herdsmen as terrorist acts would help make up the authorities to seriously address the threats posed by herdsmen and combat the crimes against humanity being committed against Nigerians.”
In a statement read out to a formal meeting by Ambassador Koro Bessho of Japan, the Council President for December, the 15-member body expressed “grave concern” at reports of migrants being sold into slavery in Libya.
United Kingdom’s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Kevin Hyland, made the call at the UN Security Council Open Debate on Modern Slavery on Saturday in New York
The Deputy Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General, Farhan Haq, confirmed to the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in New York that the visit would take place in March
The position was stated by the President of the Security Council, Olof Skoog (Sweden), who spoke with UN Correspondents after the adoption of the Resolution 2337 (2017) by consensus by the 15-Member Council
It stressed the importance of the upcoming elections in Niger, Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana and Gambia to be free, fair, peaceful, inclusive and credible
NAN reports that other countries that also ended their tenures in December 2015 alongside Nigeria were Chile, Jordan, Lithuania and Chad.
The new members to replace these countries are Japan, Egypt, Ukraine, Senegal and Uruguay
The UN Security Council has passed a resolution declaring Ebola a threat to international peace and security.
The UN Council has five permanent members comprising China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the US as well as 10 other non-permanent members, which are elected for two years by the 193 members of the UN General Assembly
The five permanent Council members, which each wield the power of veto are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States