Enrico Carisch: Together in Adversity? UNSC review

Overshadowed by deepening rifts between China and Russia on the one hand and the United States, France and United Kingdom on the other, the Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council are not in a collectively happy place.

Nonetheless, the broader UNSC pursues its programme of work, responding to international emergencies such as the current crises in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Sudan and Burma/Myanmar, and the ongoing refinement of non-proliferation objectives through UNSC 1540. All these developments feed into national legislation and compliance obligations.

In this presentation, Enrico Carisch and CCSI colleagues Maiko Takeuchi, Thomas Bifwoli and Hans-Jacob Schindler give an overview of major developments at the Security Council in the past year, and consider key touchpoints with national sanctions and export control regimes.

About Enrico: Enrico Carisch is a founding director of Compliance and Capacity Skills International (‘CCSI’). He previously served the United Nations Security Council as a financial and natural resources sanctions monitor.