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Comprehensive Review of Special Political Missions

A/RES/80/83View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 52Comprehensive review of special political missions, published in 2025.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 2013–2025
  • 2025A/RES/80/83Comprehensive review of special political missionsLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2024A/RES/79/92Comprehensive review of special political missionsCompare with previous version
  • 2023A/RES/78/79Comprehensive review of special political missionsCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/77/127Comprehensive review of special political missionsCompare with previous version
  • 2021A/RES/76/83Comprehensive review of special political missionsCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

iExtracted automatically from each entity’s budget submission.

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 topic
Special Missions

What does this mandate say?

8 operative paragraphs
1
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to resolution 79/92;
2
Requests the Secretary-General to hold regular, inclusive and interactive dialogue on the overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions, with a view to enhancing their efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, responsiveness, transparency and accountability, and further requests the Secretariat to reach out to Member States, including through timely and transparent communication, prior to the holding of such dialogue to ensure wide and meaningful participation;
3
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;
4
Encourages stronger coordination, coherence and cooperation of the Security Council and the General Assembly with the Peacebuilding Commission, and invites the Security Council to continue to regularly request, deliberate and draw upon the specific, strategic and targeted advice of the Commission, including to assist with the longer-term perspective required for sustaining peace being reflected in the formation, review, transition and drawdown of peacekeeping operations and special political missions mandates in cooperation with host Governments, in line with General Assembly resolution 70/262 and Security Council resolution 2282 (2016);
5
Encourages special political missions to continue fostering inclusive partnerships with regional and subregional organizations and other relevant stakeholders, as appropriate and in line with respective mandates and in accordance with Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, to address multidimensional and evolving challenges to peace and security, including during transitions;
6
Also encourages special political missions to work closely with host Governments, the United Nations country teams and, where consistent with their mandates, with relevant partners, to ensure coherence and coordination;
7
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its eighty-first session a timely, results-based report on the implementation of the present resolution regarding the overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions, including lessons learned, efforts and recommendations towards improving expertise and effectiveness, transparency, accountability, geographical representation, gender perspective and the full, safe, equal and meaningful participation of women, including in peace processes, as well as the full, effective, safe and meaningful participation of youth, including in peace processes, in particular in mediation and political processes;
8
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-first 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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