China, which chairs the United Nations Security Council this month, has scheduled two major debates at the UN, one on international peacekeeping and another focused on Africa.

The information was advanced this Monday in a note released by the UN Security Council itself.

The first is an open discussion on "Peace and Security in Africa: Capacity Building for Peacekeeping.

"The goal of the meeting is to identify challenges to peacekeeping in Africa and generate ideas to support capacity building on the continent to address these challenges," the same note indicates.

The debate will cover Sudan, with a semi-annual report from the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Darfur, but also Libya, on the UN support mission there and issues related to the 1970 Libya Sanctions Committee, and Mali, with a discussion on sanctions renewal.

The second event planned by China is the "Maintenance of International Peace and Security," during which UN Secretary-General António Guterres is expected to speak.

The Security Council also scheduled a session on the 15th report on the threat posed by the Islamic State.

The UN Security Council also said it "will most likely meet to discuss Ukraine during the month," as well as the issue of Georgia, as it marks the 14th anniversary of the 2008 conflict between that country and Russia.

One of the measures announced by China upon assuming the presidency of that UN body, is to reduce by A taste the use of air conditioning in the Security Council room.

The measure was also announced this Monday by the Chinese ambassador to the UN on his Twitter social network account and aims to contribute to "saving energy and reducing carbon emissions.

In 2019, the UN as a whole implemented measures to limit the use of air conditioning and heating by delaying them for an hour in the morning and turning them off an hour earlier in the afternoon, which would allow, according to the United Nations, cost savings of about $7,000 per day.(Lusa)