The Security Council will send a high-level team on a fact-finding mission to Afghanistan next week to review the threat posed by Taliban and al Qaeda extremists, its current president said on Thursday.
Peru's UN Ambassador Jorge Voto-Bernales, the council president for November, said a nine-member team from the 15-member council would leave for Islamabad November 10 on its way to Afghanistan where it was due to arrive on November 12.
The mission is due back at UN headquarters on November 17 and the Security Council is to hear a briefing on the trip on November 22, Voto-Bernales told reporters.