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Part X Subsidiary Organs of the Security Council: Peacekeeping Part X Subsidiary organs of the Security Council: peacekeeping operations and political and peacebuilding missions 12-07779 771/1225 Contents Page Introductory note ............................................................... 774 I. Peacekeeping operations ......................................................... 776 Note ......................................................................... 776 Africa ........................................................................ 780 United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara ..................... 780 United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ....... 781 United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea .................................. 797 United Nations Mission in Liberia ............................................. 798 United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire ...................................... 803 United Nations Mission in the Sudan .......................................... 813 African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur ........................ 824 United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad .................. 828 Americas ..................................................................... 835 United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti ................................... 835 Asia .......................................................................... 845 United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan ..................... 845 United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste ............................... 846 Europe ....................................................................... 853 United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ................................... 853 United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia .................................... 854 United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo ........................ 856 Middle East ................................................................... 857 United Nations Truce Supervision Organization ................................. 857 United Nations Disengagement Observer Force .................................. 858 United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon ....................................... 859 II. Political and peacebuilding missions ............................................... 861 Africa ........................................................................ 864 United Nations Political Office for Somalia ..................................... 864 United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau .................... 871 United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau .................. 875 United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in the Central African Republic ........ 879 772/1225 12-07779 United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic ....... 881 United Nations Office for West Africa ......................................... 884 United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone ................................ 886 United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone .................... 890 United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi .................................... 894 Asia and the Middle East ........................................................ 899 United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan ............................... 899 United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq ..................................... 907 United Nations Mission in Nepal .............................................. 909 Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon ..................... 910 United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia .......... 911 Annex Documents relating to peacekeeping operations and political and peacebuilding missions ..... 912 12-07779 773/1225 Introductory note Article 29 The Security Council may establish such subsidiary organs as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions. Rule 28 The Security Council may appoint a commission or committee or a rapporteur for a specified question. The Security Council’s power to establish subsidiary organs is set out in Article 29 of the Charter of the United Nations and reflected in rule 28 of its provisional rules of procedure. This part covers procedures of the Council relating to field-based subsidiary organs that the Council established for the performance of its functions under the Charter of the United Nations. These field-based subsidiary organs can be divided into two categories: (a) peacekeeping operations; and (b) political missions and peacebuilding offices. Other subsidiary organs, namely committees, working groups, investigative bodies and tribunals, ad hoc commissions, special envoys, representatives and coordinators, and the Peacebuilding Commission, are covered in part IX. This part is divided into two sections: peacekeeping operations; and political missions and peacebuilding offices. The subsections provide brief background information, as well as a summary of the major developments for each subsidiary organ during the period under review. The description for each subsidiary organ also contains a table illustrating the mandate active at the start of the review period and any subsequent changes, with the full text of all paragraphs of Council decisions that relate to changes in the composition and mandate of the subsidiary organ in 2008 and 2009. Other documents of the Council relating to the subsidiary bodies are listed in the annex to this part. The mandates of the peacekeeping operations, political missions and peacebuilding offices consist of a series of individual “mandated tasks”, which are grouped on the basis of a system of categories and descriptions, such as “rule of law” or “political processes”. These descriptions are based purely on the language used in the decisions of the Council and do not necessarily reflect the specific structures or activities of the Mission. To assist the reader in understanding how the Council has changed the mandates of the peacekeeping operations, political missions and peacebuilding offices during the period under consideration, the relevant provisions of decisions contained in the tables are identified as a “newly mandated task”, a “reiteration” of the mandate or an “additional element”. For example, if the provision is described as a newly mandated task, either the Council has given an entirely new task to the subsidiary organ, or it is the first time that that specific element has appeared in the context of that subsidiary organ; if the provision is referred to as a reiteration of the mandate or an additional element, the Council is either restating a previously mandated task or providing additional instructions relating to a mandate set forth in a previous decision. Additional elements may include requests for a peacekeeping operation, political mission or peacebuilding office to prioritize a certain area or change the scope of the mandated task. For example, a political mission that had 774/1225 12-07779 been given the task, in a decision, of assisting in national elections would have an electoral assistance mandate. If the Council subsequently requested the political mission to assist with local elections, the expansion of the mandate would be marked as an additional element. This system of categorization is provided only as a convenience to readers and does not reflect any practice or decision of the Council. 12-07779 775/1225 I. Peacekeeping operations 4 Note at the end of 2007 to nearly 119,577 by the end of 2009. This section focuses on the decisions taken by the Security Council during the period under review Mandates of peacekeeping operations concerning the establishment and composition of The trend towards complex multidimensional peacekeeping operations and the implementation of, peacekeeping mandates continued during the period changes to and termination of their mandates. It under review. The mandates of the United Nations includes an overview of the authorized mandate and Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea and the United Nations composition of each operation at the start of the period Observer Mission in Georgia, which were relatively and the full text of all paragraphs relating to any limited and related to ceasefire monitoring, were changes to the mandate and/or composition, as well as terminated, while the United Nations Mission in Central selected other documents. The operations are organized African Republic and Chad was given an expanded and by region and listed in the order in which they were more robust mandate, with provisions adopted under established. Chapter VII that included authorization to use all necessary means and to protect civilians under threat. Overview of peacekeeping operations during For other peacekeeping operations, the period was 2008 and 2009 primarily one of adjustments rather than major changes During the period under review, the total number to their respective mandates. Although the Council of peacekeeping operations declined from 17 to 15, modified the mandate of the United Nations owing to the Council’s decision to terminate the Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the mandates of two peacekeeping operations, the United Congo twice, most of the same tasks were retained. The Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea1 and the Council also added elements and/or tasks to the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia.2 While mandates of a number of other peacekeeping operations, no new peacekeeping
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