The delegation, led by British ambassador Jeremy Greenstock, will visit Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone from May 15 to 23, it said.
"The council members will examine country-specific issues and developments at each stop," it said.
"In Liberia, for instance, the mission will urge the government and various rebel factions to engage in ceasefire negotiations," to end a devastating war which has wracked the country since 1999.
It said the members would urge the government of Guinea-Bissau to ensure that upcoming elections were "fair and credible".
Guinea-Bissau's leading politicians and President Kumba Yala on Wednesday agreed to delay until July 6 a parliamentary election, which had already been postponed for two months until April.
The statement said the UN team would "assess the transition from peacekeeping to longer-term development in Sierra Leone" where the biggest UN peacekeeping force has been deployed.
Sierra Leone emerged from a brutal 10-year civil war, marked by mass amputations, killing, rape and torture only in January last year, when the conflict was formally declared ended.
In Ivory Coast, rent by more than seven months of civil war, which has torn the world's largest cocoa producer in half, the team will "urge Ivorian parties to fully implement a recently signed power-sharing peace accord".
Nigeria has just witnessed general and presidential elections, which foreign observers said were marred by fraud and intimidation. – Sapa.
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