Comprehensive Review of Special Political Missions

A/RES/71/100View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 52 Comprehensive review of special political missions, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 2013–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/83

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/83	Comprehensive review of special political missions	1,700	89%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/92	Comprehensive review of special political missions	1,531	78%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/79	Comprehensive review of special political missions	1,411	84%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/127	Comprehensive review of special political missions	1,371	94%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/83	Comprehensive review of special political missions	1,326	79%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

14 reports · 2013–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/332	Overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/83
2025	A/80/322	Overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/92
2024	A/79/303	Overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/79
2023	A/78/307	Overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/127
2022	A/77/283	Overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/83

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Special Missions

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to resolution 70/92;⁶

⁶A/71/330.

Requests the Secretary-General to hold regular, inclusive and interactive dialogue on the overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions, and requests the Secretariat to reach out to Member States prior to the holding of such dialogue to ensure wide and meaningful participation;

Respects the purview of the mandate of special political missions, as stipulated in the respective relevant resolutions, recognizes the specificity of each mandate of such missions, and emphasizes the role of the General Assembly in discussing the overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions;

Acknowledges the importance of strong coordination, coherence and cooperation of the Security Council and the General Assembly with the Peacebuilding Commission, and in this regard notes the intention of the Security Council to regularly request, deliberate and draw upon the specific, strategic and targeted advice of the Peacebuilding Commission, including to assist with the longer-term perspective required for sustaining peace being reflected in the formation, review and drawdown of peacekeeping operations and special political missions mandates, as stated in General Assembly resolution 70/262 and Security Council resolution 2282 (2016);

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly, at its seventy-second session, a timely report on the implementation of the present resolution regarding the overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions, including efforts towards improving expertise and effectiveness, transparency, accountability, geographical representation, gender perspective and women’s equal participation, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General to include relevant detailed information on these matters in the report;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second session the item entitled “Comprehensive review of special political missions” and to consider the above-mentioned report of the Secretary-General under that item.

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