The?2022 edition of the?Highlights of Security Council Practice,?published since 2011 by the Security Council Affairs Division, offers a snapshot of the Council¡¯s activity over the year.

Following the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2022, the Security Council returned to conducting its business entirely in person.

?In 2022, the Council held 292 formal meetings, adopted 54 resolutions, issued 7 presidential statements, and considered 49 agenda items.

The Council unanimously adopted several landmark decisions:

  • Resolution? - the Council decided that the United Nations Compensation Commission had fulfilled its mandate and terminated the mandate of the Commission

  • Resolution , - the Council endorsed the decision of the African Union Peace and Security Council to reconfigure the African Union Mission in Somalia into the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS)

  • Resolution - the Council urged Member States in the region of the Gulf of Guinea to develop and implement national maritime security strategies

  • Resolution - establishing a new sanctions regime in connection with Haiti imposing sanctions measures

  • Resolution - ?extending the mandate of the 1540 Committee for a period of 10 years until 30 November 2032

  • Resolution - recognizing the need to raise awareness of mental health and psychosocial support to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ peace operations personnel

For the first time in four decades, under the agenda item entitled ¡°Letter dated 28 February 2014 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council ()¡±, the Council adopted resolution ) calling on the General Assembly to hold an emergency special session in accordance with General Assembly resolution .

The resolution was adopted with three abstentions, despite the negative vote of the Russian Federation (for precedents see the Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council).

The year also saw the addition of two new agenda items:

  • ¡°Maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine¡±

  • ¡°Letter dated 13 September 2022 from the Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2022/688)¡±.

¡°The situation in Liberia¡± was deleted from its agenda.

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