Emergency Assistance to the Sudan

A/RES/51/30[I]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1997.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 1988–2002

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/56/112

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2002	A/RES/56/112	Emergency assistance to the Sudan	1,399	—
2000	A/RES/54/96[J]	Emergency assistance to the Sudan	—	—
1999	A/RES/53/1[O]	Emergency assistance to the Sudan	—	—
1998	A/RES/52/169[F]	Emergency assistance to the Sudan	—	—
1997	A/RES/51/30[I]	Emergency assistance to the Sudan	—	—

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2001–2003

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2003	A/58/225	Humanitarian assistance to the Sudan report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/56/112
2001	A/56/412	Humanitarian assistance to the Republic of the Sudan report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/54/96[J]

What subjects does this mandate have?

16 subjects

Capacity Building Development Assistance Disease Control Displaced Persons Emergency Relief Humanitarian Assistance Landmines Mine Clearance Refugee Assistance Relief Transport Repatriation Resettlement Staff Security Sudan Sudanese Refugees Transport Infrastructure

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

A/RES/51/30 [I]

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Acknowledges with appreciation the cooperation by the Government of the Sudan with the United Nations, including the agreements and arrangements achieved to facilitate relief operations towards improvement of United Nations assistance to affected areas, and encourages the continuation of that cooperation;

Stresses the need for Operation Lifeline Sudan to be operated with a view to ensuring its efficiency, transparency and effectiveness, with the full participation of the Government of the Sudan in its management and operation, including conducting of assessment, allocation, distribution and evaluation processes, as well as consultations in the preparation of the consolidated annual inter-agency appeal for the Operation;

Stresses also that Operation Lifeline Sudan should operate within the principle of national sovereignty and the framework of international cooperation in accordance with relevant national and international law;

Calls upon the international community to continue to contribute generously to the emergency needs, recovery and development of the country;

Urges the international community to give priority to assistance for the rehabilitation of roads, railways and airports and to provision of means of road transport in order to facilitate relief supplies to the affected areas;

Calls upon the donor community and the organizations of the United Nations system to provide financial, technical and medical assistance, guided by the actions called for by the General Assembly in its relevant resolutions to combat malaria and other epidemics in the Sudan;

Welcomes the signing in April 1996 of the political charter between the Government and many factions of the rebel movement for the achievement of peace in the Sudan, and encourages the remaining factions to join the peace process so as to establish durable peace and stability in the country and to facilitate relief efforts;

Urges the international community to support the programmes of rehabilitation, settlement and integration of returnees, refugees and the internally displaced;

Stresses the importance of assuring safe access for personnel providing relief assistance to all in need, and the importance of strict observance of the principles and guidelines of Operation Lifeline Sudan;

Urges all parties involved to continue to offer all feasible assistance, including facilitating the movement of relief supplies and personnel, so as to guarantee maximum success of Operation Lifeline Sudan in all affected parts of the country, with special emphasis on national capacity-building in the humanitarian field for governmental and non-governmental organizations;

Also urges all the parties to the conflict to desist from using anti-personnel mines, and calls upon the international community to refrain from supplying mines to the parties of the conflict and to provide the Government of the Sudan with financial and technical assistance in mine clearance;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to mobilize and coordinate resources and support for Operation Lifeline Sudan and to report on the emergency situation in the affected areas and the recovery, rehabilitation and development of the country to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session.

See A/50/790-S/1995/999; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fiftieth Year, Supplement for October, November and December 1995, document S/1995/999.

See A/51/211-S/1996/551, annex I; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fifty-first Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1996, document S/1996/551.

See A/51/226-S/1996/595 and A/51/330-S/1996/721 and Corr.1; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fifty-first Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1996, document S/1996/595, and ibid., document S/1996/721.

A/50/60-S/1995/1; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fiftieth Year, Supplement for January, February and March 1995, document S/1995/1.

A/51/356.

See Official Records of the Security Council, Fifty-first Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1996, document S/1996/679, annex and Corr.1.

Official Records of the Security Council, Fiftieth Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1995, document S/1995/742.

A/51/303.

A/CONF.147/18, part one.

A/51/560.

A/51/213.

A/51/315.

A/48/824-S/26915, annexes I to VII; see Official Records of the Security Council, Forty-eighth Year, Supplement for October, November and December 1993, document S/26915.

Official Records of the Security Council, Fiftieth Year, Supplement for October, November and December 1995, document S/1995/1001.

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