Reports and Policy Documents

2009

• 28 июл 2009
  2nd Meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism

  On 28 July 2009, the second meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism, chaired by the United Nations, was held in Gali.

  Today’s meeting continued the discussion of the first meeting on some questions regarding the practical organisation of work and the modalities of future meetings, and then moved on to address substantive questions.

  The practical arrangements for the establishment of a “hotline” to facilitate urgent contacts between participants were finalised.

  On substantive matters, both current and past incidents were discussed, as well as wider issues related to enhancing security in general.  The participants exchanged views and information on these matters and undertook to revert to some of the points during next meetings.

  As a measure of transparency and confidence building, it was agreed that the agenda for the IPRM meetings would include “advance notice of sensitive activities” as a standing item.

  As was already the case in the first meeting on 14 July 2009, participants engaged constructively in the discussion, thus contributing to what was again a productive meeting.

  It was agreed that the next meeting of the IPRM would take place in Gali on 11 August 2009.

• 14 июл 2009
  1st Meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism

  As agreed at the sixth round of the Geneva Discussions on 1 July 2009, the first consultative meeting under United Nations auspices of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism took place in Gali on 14 July 2009.

  With all participants present, this meeting addressed questions regarding the practical organisation of work and modalities of future meetings.

  All participants actively engaged on all points on the agenda, thus contributing to a good and productive meeting.

  Agreement was reached on all issues except one.  There was agreement on the periodicity of meetings, on the format of the meetings, on the working languages of the meetings, on the way summary conclusions of meetings will be drawn and the agenda will be set, on the chairmanship of the next meetings, and on the practical set-up of the “hotline”.  The only issue that will be further discussed at the next meeting is the locations where the meetings should be convened.

  As all participants agreed to meet on a bi-weekly basis, the next meeting under United Nations auspices will take place on 28 July 2009.  It was also agreed that this meeting will take place in Gali.