Security Council Resolution 2459 (2019) [on Extension of the Mandate of the Un Mission in South Sudan (Unmiss) Until 15 Mar. 2020]

S/RES/2459 (2019)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the Security Council, under agenda item 216Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan and South Sudan, published in 2019.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 2017–2023

This is an older version — the most recent is S/RES/2677 (2023)

2023S/RES/2677 (2023)Security Council resolution 2677 (2023) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until 15 Mar. 2024]LatestCompare with previous version
2022S/RES/2625 (2022)Security Council resolution 2625 (2022) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until 15 Mar. 2023]Compare with previous version
2021S/RES/2567 (2021)Security Council resolution 2567 (2021) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until 15 Mar. 2022]Compare with previous version
2020S/RES/2514 (2020)Security Council resolution 2514 (2020) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until 15 Mar. 2021]Compare with previous version
2019S/RES/2459 (2019)Security Council resolution 2459 (2019) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until 15 Mar. 2020]Compare with previous version

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What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics

Human Rights in Armed Conflicts Internal Security Peacekeeping Operations Protection of Civilians in Peacekeeping Operations South Sudan

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

5 reports of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2019–2020.

Reports

2020S/2020/145Situation in South Sudan report of the Secretary-General
2019S/2019/936Situation in South Sudan report of the Secretary-General
2019S/2019/741Future planning for the protection of civilians sites in South Sudan report of the Secretary-General
2019S/2019/722Situation in South Sudan report of the Secretary-General
2019S/2019/491Situation in South Sudan report of the Secretary-General

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What does this mandate say?

65 operative paragraphs

Demands that all parties to the conflict immediately end the fighting throughout South Sudan and engage in political dialogue, and further demands that South Sudan’s leaders implement the permanent ceasefire declared in the Revitalised Agreement and ceasefires for which they respectively called on 11 July 2016 and 22 May 2017, as well as the ACOH signed on 21 December 2017, and ensure that subsequent decrees and orders directing their commanders control their forces and protect civilians and their property are fully implemented;

Demands that the GoSS comply with the obligations set out in the SOFA between the Government of South Sudan and the United Nations, and immediately cease obstructing UNMISS in the performance of its mandate, and further demands the GoSS immediately cease obstructing international and national humanitarian actors from assisting civilians, and facilitate freedom of movement for the CTSAMVM and calls on the GoSS to take action, to deter, and to hold those responsible to account for any hostile or other actions that impede UNMISS or international and national humanitarian actors;

Expresses its intention to consider all appropriate measures, as demonstrated by adoption of resolutions 2206 (2015), 2290 (2016), 2353 (2017), and 2428 (2018) against those who take actions that undermine the peace, stability, and security of South Sudan, stresses the sanctity of United Nations protection sites, specifically underscores that individuals or entities that are responsible or complicit in, or have engaged in, directly or indirectly, attacks against UNMISS personnel and premises and any humanitarian personnel, may meet the designation criteria, and in this regard takes note of the 20 February 2018 Special Report of the Secretary-General on the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (S/2018/143) that the steady re-supply of weapons and ammunition to South Sudan has directly affected the safety of UN personnel and UNMISS’s ability to carry out its mandate, takes note of the AUPSC’s 8 February 2018 communique which states that signatories to the ACOH should be deprived of the means to continue fighting, and underscores the measures adopted by the Security Council in resolution 2428 (2018), including the arms embargo to deprive the parties of the means to continue fighting and to prevent violations of the ACOH;

Commends the 22 January 2019 report by RJMEC Interim Chairperson Augostino S.K. Njoroge on the status of implementation of the Revitalised Agreement for the period October 2018 to December 2018, welcomes the gradual decrease in fighting among the warring parties, calls on parties to the Revitalised Agreement to take the necessary steps to ensure that pretransitional institutions and mechanisms can be operational as soon as possible, taking into account the timetable set by the Revitalised Agreement, condemns violations of the ACOH by all parties, including continuing use of sexual and gender-based violence in attacks, and the assault of CTSAMVM monitors that undermines confidence building measures between the warring parties, underscores that lack of feasible security arrangements may delay the peace process, and calls upon all parties to ensure full and meaningful participation of youth, women, diverse communities, faith groups, and civil society in all conflict resolution and peacebuilding efforts;

Decides to extend the mandate of UNMISS until 15 March 2020;

Decides to maintain the overall force levels of UNMISS with a troop ceiling of 17,000 troops, which includes a Regional Protection Force at levels to be set by the Secretary-General but not to exceed 4,000, and maintaining the police ceiling of 2,101 police personnel, including individual police officers, formed police units and 78 corrections officers, requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps to expedite force and asset generation, requests the Secretary-General to conduct a military and police capability study subsequent to the parties to the Revitalised Agreement negotiating permanent security arrangements, and expresses its readiness to consider making the necessary adjustments to UNMISS including its Regional Protection Force to match security conditions on the ground;

Decides that the mandate of UNMISS shall be as follows, and authorizes UNMISS to use all necessary means to perform the following tasks:

Protection of civilians:

To protect civilians under threat of physical violence, irrespective of the source of such violence, within its capacity and areas of deployment, with specific protection for women and children, including through the continued use of the Mission’s Child Protection and Women Protection Advisers, the positions for which should be filled expeditiously;

To deter violence against civilians, including foreign nationals, especially through proactive deployment, active patrolling with particular attention to IDPs, including, but not limited to, those in protection sites and refugee camps, humanitarian personnel and human rights defenders, and identification of threats and attacks against civilians, including through regular interaction with civilians and working closely with humanitarian, human rights, civil society, and development organizations, in areas at high risk of conflict including, as appropriate, schools, places of worship, hospitals, and the oil installations, in particular when the GoSS is unable or failing to provide such security;

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To implement a mission-wide early warning strategy, including a coordinated approach to information gathering, monitoring, verification, early warning and dissemination, and response mechanisms, including response mechanisms to threats and attacks against civilians that may involve violations and abuses of human rights or violations of international humanitarian law, as well as to prepare for further potential attacks on United Nations personnel and facilities;

To maintain public safety and security of and within UNMISS protection of civilians sites;

To deter and prevent sexual and gender-based violence within its capacity and areas of deployment, as highlighted in paragraph 41 of the Special Report of the Secretary-General of 10 November 2016 (S/2016/951);

To exercise good offices, confidence-building, and facilitation in support of the mission’s protection strategy, especially in regard to women and children, including to facilitate the prevention, mitigation, and resolution of intercommunal conflict through, inter alia, mediation and community engagement in order to foster sustainable local and national reconciliation as an essential part of preventing violence and long-term state-building activity, as well as to provide support, within existing resources, for the relevant authorities and civil society organizations in developing and implementing gender-sensitive community violence reduction (CVR) programs, in cooperation and coordination with development partners and community representatives, especially women and youth;

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To foster a secure environment for the safe, informed, voluntary, and dignified, return or relocation of IDPs and refugees including through monitoring of, ensuring respect for human rights by, and where compatible and in strict compliance with the United Nations Human Rights Due Diligence Policy (HRDDP), coordination with police services, security and government institutions, and civil society actors in relevant and protection-focused activities, such as sensitization to issues of sexual and gender-based violence and children and armed conflict as well as technical assistance or advice, within existing resources, on international humanitarian law, investigation and prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence and conflict-related sexual violence, as well as other human rights violations and abuses, in order to strengthen protection of civilians;

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To support the facilitation of the safe, informed, voluntary, and dignified return or relocation of IDPs from United Nations protection of civilian sites, in coordination with humanitarian actors and other relevant stakeholders, and within existing resources;

Creating the conditions conducive to the delivery of humanitarian assistance:

To contribute, in close coordination with humanitarian actors, to the creation of security conditions conducive to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, so as to allow, the rapid, safe and unhindered access of relief personnel to all those in need in South Sudan and timely delivery of humanitarian assistance, in particular to IDPs and refugees, recalling the need for compliance with the relevant provisions of international law and respect for the UN guiding principles of humanitarian assistance, including humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence;

To ensure the security and freedom of movement of United Nations and associated personnel where appropriate, and to ensure the security of its installations and equipment necessary for implementation of mandated tasks;

Monitoring, and investigating human rights:

To monitor, investigate, verify, and report immediately, publicly, and regularly on abuses and violations of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, including those that may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity;

To monitor, investigate, verify and report specifically and publicly on violations and abuses committed against children and women, including those involving all forms of sexual and gender-based violence in armed conflict by accelerating the implementation of monitoring, analysis and reporting arrangements on conflict-related sexual violence and by strengthening the monitoring and reporting mechanism for violations and abuses against children;

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To monitor, investigate and report on incidents of hate speech and incitement to violence in cooperation with the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide;

To coordinate with, share appropriate information with, and provide technical support to international, regional, and national mechanisms engaged in monitoring, investigating, and reporting violations of international humanitarian law and human rights violations and abuses, including those that may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity, as appropriate;

Supporting the Implementation of the Revitalised Agreement and the Peace Process:

To carry out, within its capabilities, the following tasks in support of the implementation of the Revitalised Agreement and the peace process, and recognizing that the tasks outlined in paragraph 10 and implemented by the Regional Protection Force (RPF) are essential to creating an enabling environment for implementation of the Revitalised Agreement and the peace process:

Using good offices to support the peace process, including advice or technical assistance, within existing resources;

Participating in and supporting the CTSAMVM in implementation of its ceasefire monitoring and verification mandate, including through facilitating and supporting the CTSAMVM in its implementation of monitoring and reporting of violations and overall effectiveness in identifying those responsible for these violations;

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Actively participating in and supporting the work of the RJMEC, especially at the sub-national level;

Stresses that the peace process only remains viable with the full commitment by all parties and inclusion of civil society, women, and youth, urges all the parties to participate in the peace process in good faith in order to reach the compromises necessary for the peace and stability of South Sudan, reminds the parties that UNMISS shall only undertake those tasks related to the peace process as described in paragraph 7 (d) and notes its intention to keep the tasks and composition of UNMISS under active review based on progress with the peace process and implementing the Revitalised Agreement;

Noting the request from the AUPSC outlined in the Secretary General’s letter to the Security Council (S/2019/110), expresses its willingness to consider a review of the mandate and composition of the RPF in line with UN peacekeeping principles and standards, subsequent to the parties to the Revitalised Agreement negotiating permanent security arrangements and forming the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity;

Decides that UNMISS shall continue to include an RPF, recalls that per 2304 (2016) the RPF has the responsibility of providing a secure environment in and around Juba and in other parts of South Sudan as necessary, and authorizes the RPF to use all necessary means, including undertaking robust action where necessary and actively patrolling, to accomplish the RPF mandate, to:

Facilitate the conditions for safe and free movement into, out of, and around Juba, including through protecting the means of ingress and egress from the city and major lines of communication and transport within Juba;

Protect the airport to ensure the airport remains operational, and protect key facilities in Juba essential to the well-being of the people of Juba, as identified by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General;

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Promptly and effectively engage any actor that is credibly found to be preparing attacks, or engages in attacks, against United Nations protection of civilians sites, other United Nations premises, United Nations personnel, international and national humanitarian actors, or civilians;

Welcomes the efforts of IGAD, the AU, the AUPSC, and countries in the region to find durable solutions to peace and security challenges in South Sudan, encourages their continued firm engagement with South Sudan’s leaders to meet without delay all commitments made under cessation of hostilities agreements and the Revitalised Agreement, underlines the support by IGAD of the national dialogue, in cooperation with the UN and AU, and urges IGAD to appoint a Chairperson for the RJMEC;

Affirms the critical importance of the ability of UNMISS to use all of its bases without restrictions in order to execute its mandate including, but not limited to, its base in Tomping and in this regard, calls on the Government of South Sudan to uphold its obligations to guarantee UNMISS unimpeded access to United Nations premises per the SOFA;

Recalls its resolution 2086 (2013) and reaffirms the basic principles of peacekeeping, as set forth in Presidential Statement S/PRST/2015/22, including consent of the parties, impartiality, and non-use of force, except in self-defence and defence of the mandate, recognizes that the mandate of each peacekeeping mission is specific to the need and situation of the country concerned, and that the Security Council expects full delivery of the mandates it authorizes;

Emphasizes that protection of civilians must be given priority in decisions about the use of available capacity and resources within the mission, stresses that UNMISS’s mandate as set out in paragraphs 7 and 10 above includes authority to use all necessary means in order to accomplish its mandated tasks, particularly the protection of civilians, and stresses that such actions include, but are not limited to, within UNMISS’s capacity and areas of deployment, defending protection of civilians sites, establishing areas around the sites that are not used for hostile purposes by any forces, including by extending weapons free zones to UNMISS protection of civilians sites where appropriate, addressing threats to the sites, searching individuals attempting to enter the sites, and seizing weapons from those inside or attempting to enter the sites, removing from and denying entry of armed actors to the protection of civilians sites;

Recognizes the important use of confidence-building, facilitation, mediation, and community engagement, and encourages UNMISS as appropriate and when possible, to explore how it can use these techniques to enhance its ability to support the Mission’s protection, information gathering and situational awareness, and to implement its mandated tasks, including to protect civilians;

Requests and encourages the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to direct the operations of an integrated UNMISS and coordinate all activities of the United Nations system in the Republic of South Sudan, and to exercise his or her good offices to lead the UN system in South Sudan in assisting the RJMEC, the AU, IGAD and other actors, as well as the parties, with implementation of the Revitalised Agreement and to promote peace and reconciliation, underscores in this regard the critical role of CTSAMVM as well as the importance of the support provided to it by UNMISS in delivering on its mandate, and reaffirms in this regard the critical role that the UN plays, in coordination with regional organizations and other actors, to advance political dialogue between parties and contribute to achieving an enduring cessation of hostilities and lead the parties to an inclusive peace process;

Requests UNMISS to strengthen its sexual and gender-based violence prevention and response activities, including by ensuring that risks of sexual and gender-based violence is included in the Mission’s data collection, threat analysis and early warning systems, by engaging with victims of sexual violence, and women’s organizations, further requests UNMISS to take fully into account gender considerations as a crosscutting issue throughout its mandate, reaffirms the importance of gender advisors, gender expertise and capacity strengthening in executing the mission mandate in a gender-responsive manner, and encourages Troop- and Police-contributing Countries to take measures to increase the deployment of women in the military, police, and civilian components of the Mission;

Requests UNMISS to continue to intensify its presence and active patrolling in areas of high risk of conflict, high concentrations of IDPs and refugees, with particular attention to women and children, including as guided by its early warning strategy, in all areas, and key routes for population movement, to extend its presence, including through proactive deployment and patrolling, to areas of displacement, return, resettlement, and reintegration, in order to foster a secure environment for the safe, informed, dignified and voluntary return of IDPs and refugees, and to conduct regular reviews of its geographic deployment to ensure that its forces are best placed to fulfil its mandate;

Recognizes that the effective implementation of UNMISS mandate is the responsibility of all stakeholders and is contingent upon several critical factors, including well defined, realistic, and achievable mandates; political will, leadership, performance and accountability at all levels; adequate resources; policy, planning and operational guidelines and training; in this regard, welcomes the initiatives undertaken by the Secretary-General to standardize a culture of performance in UN peacekeeping and reaffirms its support, as set out in paragraph 1 of resolution 2436 (2018), for the development of a comprehensive and integrated performance policy framework that identifies clear standards of performance for evaluating all United Nations civilian and uniformed personnel working in and supporting peacekeeping operations that facilitates effective and full implementation of mandates, and includes comprehensive and objective methodologies based on clear and well-defined benchmarks to ensure accountability for underperformance and incentives and recognition for outstanding performance, and calls on him to apply it to UNMISS; and further welcomes efforts by the Secretary-General to operationalize the Operational Readiness Assurance Policy, conduct mission performance reviews of uniformed and civilian personnel, leverage the Peacekeeping Capabilities and Readiness System (PCRS) to ensure performance data informs decisions regarding peacekeepers deployment, and calls on him to continue his efforts in this regard;

Recalls its Presidential Statement S/PRST/2015/22 and its resolution 2272 (2016) and requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary measures to ensure full compliance of UNMISS with the United Nations zero tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse and to ensure that all personnel of the mission are vetted for history of sexual misconduct in the service with the United Nations and requests the Secretary-General to include in his regular reporting to the Security Council on UNMISS information in this regard, including any reviews of UNMISS troop- and police-contributing countries according to the operational guidance for resolution 2272 (2016), and urges troop- and police-contributing countries to take appropriate preventive and disciplinary action to ensure that such acts are properly investigated and punished in cases involving their personnel;

Requests UNMISS to ensure that any support provided to non-United Nations security forces is provided in strict compliance with the HRDDP on United Nations Support to non-United Nations security forces;

Requests UNMISS to assist the Committee, within existing resources, established pursuant to paragraph 16 of resolution 2206 (2015) and the Panel of Experts established by the same resolution, regarding the measures adopted in resolution 2428 (2018), including its provisions related to the arms embargo, and in particular encourages timely information exchange between UNMISS and the Panel of Experts, further urges all parties and Member States, as well as international, regional and subregional organizations to ensure cooperation with the Panel of Experts and further urges all Member States involved to ensure the safety of the members of the Panel of Experts and unhindered access, in particular to persons, documents and sites in order for the Panel of Experts to execute its mandate;

Condemns in the strongest terms attacks on and threats made to UNMISS personnel and United Nations facilities, as well as those of IGAD, including the December 2018 obstruction, detention, and abuse of a CTSAMVM team by GoSS officials in December 2018, stresses that such attacks may constitute violations of the SOFA and/or war crimes, demands that all parties respect the inviolability of United Nations premises and immediately desist and refrain from any violence against those gathered at United Nations facilities, reiterates that the GoSS is bound by the terms of the SOFA, and further demands the immediate and safe release of detained and kidnapped United Nations and associated personnel;

Condemns the clash that took place in Malakal in February 2016 and the fighting in Juba in July 2016, and urges the UN to continuously incorporate lessons learned to conduct reforms across UNMISS to better enable it to implement its mandate, in particular regarding the protection of civilians, and to improve UNMISS chain of command, increase the effectiveness of UNMISS operations, strengthen safety and security of personnel, and enhance UNMISS’ ability to manage complex situations;

Condemns in the strongest terms attacks on and looting of humanitarian aid, including food and medicine, and premises, including hospitals and medical facilities and warehouses, and demands that all parties allow, in accordance with relevant provisions of international law and United Nations guiding principles of emergency humanitarian assistance, including humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence, the rapid, safe and unhindered access of relief personnel, equipment and supplies, and timely delivery of humanitarian assistance, to all those in need throughout South Sudan in particular to IDPs and refugees, and end use of hospitals, schools and other civilian premises for purposes that could make them subject to attack, stresses the obligation to respect and protect all medical personnel and humanitarian personnel exclusively engaged in medical duties, their means of transport and equipment, as well as hospitals and other medical facilities, stresses also that any returns or other durable solutions for IDPs or refugees must be undertaken on a voluntary and informed basis in conditions of dignity and safety, and notes that freedom of movement of civilians and their right to seek asylum should be respected;

Further demands that all parties immediately cease all forms of violence, human rights violations and abuses, and violations of international humanitarian law, including rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, and hold those responsible accountable, in order to break the prevailing cycle of impunity;

Condemns all violations of applicable international law committed by all parties to the conflict, in particular against children, strongly urges all parties to the conflict to implement the actions called for in The Conclusions on Children and Armed Conflict in South Sudan adopted by the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict on 17 December 2018, including the immediate release of all children in their ranks and steps to end and prevent the killing and maiming of children, welcomes the release of children by some groups, strongly urges the GoSS to develop and implement a comprehensive action plan addressing all violations and abuses against children, and further strongly urges the SPLA-IO to implement its action plan to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children and the killing and maiming of children, and underlines the importance of the GoSS providing timely and appropriate reintegration and rehabilitation assistance to children affected by armed conflict and minimize the risk of re-recruitment, while ensuring that the specific needs of girls as well as children with disabilities are addressed, including access to health care, psychosocial support, and education programmes and calls on the international community to assist these efforts;

Requests UNMISS continue to engage in dialogue with the parties to the conflict regarding the development and implementation of action plans, in line with resolution 1612 (2005) and subsequent resolutions on children and armed conflict and to support efforts aimed at releasing children associated with armed groups and forces in all parts of the country;

Strongly urges the SSPDF, SPLA-IO, and other armed groups to prevent further commission of sexual violence, urges the GoSS and the SPLA-IO to implement the joint and unilateral commitments and action plans they have made on preventing conflict-related sexual violence with focus on prevention, accountability, and enhancing assistance to victims, and strongly urges SSPDF leadership to issue specific command orders regarding prevention of conflict-related sexual violence, and demands the GoSS show concrete steps to hold those responsible within its ranks accountable for crimes of sexual violence;

Urges the parties to the Revitalised Agreement to demilitarize civilian areas as required in chapter 2 of the R-ARCSS, thereby reducing the proliferation and misuse of small arms and other weapons;

Underscores that truth-seeking and reconciliation is essential for achieving peace in South Sudan and in this regard stresses that the Commission of Truth, Reconciliation and Healing, as stipulated in the Revitalised Agreement, is a critical part of the peacebuilding process in South Sudan, to spearhead efforts to achieve national cohesion, promote peace, national reconciliation and healing;

Takes note of the steps taken by the African Union towards the setting up of the Hybrid Court for South Sudan as provided for under Chapter V of the Revitalised Agreement, as well as the work done to date by the UN, welcomes the African Union’s formal invitation for the UN to provide technical assistance towards the setting up of the Hybrid Court for South Sudan, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to make available technical assistance to the Commission of the African Union and to the GoSS in setting up the Hybrid Court for South Sudan and for the implementation of other aspects of Chapter V of the Revitalised Agreement, including with regard to the establishment of the Commission for Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing;

Takes note of the 8 February 2018 African Union Peace and Security Council communique and in this regard calls upon the GoSS to sign without further delay the Memorandum of Understanding with the African Union to establish the Hybrid Court for South Sudan, and further calls on the international community to extend support to establishing the Hybrid Court for South Sudan;

Calls upon the GoSS to move forward expeditiously and transparently to complete the ongoing investigations of allegations of human rights violations and abuses in a manner consistent with its international obligations, and encourages it to release the reports of those investigations;

Calls upon the GoSS, while taking note of paragraph 3.2.2 of Chapter V of the Revitalised Agreement, to hold to account all those responsible for violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, and to ensure that all victims of sexual violence have equal protection under the law and equal access to justice, and to safeguard equal respect for the rights of women and girls in these processes, and notes that implementing holistic transitional justice measures, including accountability, truth-seeking and reparations, are key to healing and reconciliation, and underscoring the importance of the rule of law to advancing the peace process, urges the GoSS to prioritize restoration and reform of the rule of law and justice sector, welcomes in this regard the initial steps the GoSS has taken with the deployment of mobile courts facilitated by UNMISS, and further urges the GoSS to take further steps in this regard;

Reports

Requests the Secretary-General to provide within 180 days of the mandate renewal a written report on future planning for the protection of civilian sites, including an assessment of each protection of civilian site, a review of the current model for providing security to the protection of civilian sites, recommendations clarifying the roles and responsibilities of UNMISS and other relevant stakeholders, and recommendations for steps necessary to foster a secure environment for the safe, informed, voluntary, and dignified return or relocation of residents of protection of civilian sites, with a view towards durable solutions for all displaced persons, and encourages the UN to undertake broad consultations with relevant GoSS offices, humanitarian and development actors, local communities, and civil society organizations to inform the report;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to report violations of the SOFA or obstructions to UNMISS on a monthly basis;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council on implementation of the UNMISS mandate and the obstructions UNMISS encounters in doing so in a comprehensive written report to be submitted within 90 days of the date of adoption of this resolution, every 90 days thereafter, and underscores that such reporting should include:

• reporting on progress in implementing the HRDDP,

• specific and detailed reporting on how UNMISS is working toward fulfilling its protection of civilian duties, including but not limited to troop responsiveness and performance and new patrol areas and proactive deployment,

• the consideration of gender as cross cutting throughout the mandate,

• steps taken to deter and prevent sexual and gender-based violence,

• the participation of women in peace processes,

• the steps taken to enhance the safety and security of UN personnel,

• the steps that have been taken to address performance concerns reflected in the reviews outlined in paragraphs 18 and 19,

• strengthened reporting on human rights issues in South Sudan, and

• recommendations on the steps to adapt UNMISS to the situation on the ground;

Requests the Secretary-General to report, through his regular 90-day reports, on the technical assistance provided consistent with paragraph 30 above, invites the African Union to share information on progress made in the establishment of the Hybrid Court for South Sudan, with the Secretary-General to inform his report, and expresses the Security Council’s intention upon receipt of the Secretary-General’s reports to assess the work that has been done in the establishment of the Hybrid Court in line with international standards;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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