Security Council Resolution 2506 (2020) [on Extension of the Mandate of the Un Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) Until 31 July 2020]

S/RES/2506 (2020)View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the Security Council, under agenda item 43The situation in Cyprus, published in 2020.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 2011–2022

This is an older version — the most recent is S/RES/2618 (2022)

2022S/RES/2618 (2022)Security Council resolution 2618 (2022) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) until 31 July 2022]LatestCompare with previous version
2021S/RES/2561 (2021)Security Council resolution 2561 (2021) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) until 31 July 2021]Compare with previous version
2020S/RES/2506 (2020)Security Council resolution 2506 (2020) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) until 31 July 2020]Compare with previous version
2019S/RES/2453 (2019)Security Council resolution 2453 (2019) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) until 31 July 2019]Compare with previous version
2018S/RES/2398 (2018)Security Council resolution 2398 (2018) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) until 31 July 2018]Compare with previous version

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What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics

Confidence-Building Measures Cyprus Cyprus Question Good Offices Peacebuilding Peacekeeping Operations

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2020.

2020S/2020/685Report of the Secretary-General on his mission of good offices in Cyprus
2020S/2020/682United Nations operation in Cyprus report of the Secretary-General

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What does this mandate say?

24 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the trilateral meeting of the leaders and the Secretary-General on 25 November 2019 in Berlin, at which both sides reaffirmed their commitment to a bicommunal, bizonal federation with political equality, as set out in relevant Security Council resolutions, including paragraph 4 of its resolution 716 (1991), the Joint Declaration of 11 February 2014, the prior convergences, and the six point framework presented by the Secretary-General on 30 June 2017 at the Conference of Cyprus;

Further welcomes the Secretary-General’s agreement to extend his efforts to achieve terms of reference to serve as a consensus starting point for phased, meaningful, and results-oriented negotiations at the earliest feasible opportunity, and urges the sides and all involved participants to renew their political will and commitment to a settlement under United Nations auspices, including by engaging actively and with a sense of urgency with the Secretary-General and senior United Nations official, Jane Holl Lute;

Calls for a reduction of tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, and calls upon the leaders of the two Cypriot communities and all involved parties to refrain from any actions and rhetoric that might damage the chances of success;

Reaffirms all its relevant resolutions on Cyprus, in particular resolution 1251 (1999);

Recalls its resolution 2483 (2019), and calls upon the two leaders to:

put their efforts expeditiously behind further work on reaching convergences on the core issues;

reaffirm their political support for all Technical Committees, empower them to submit proposals for their consideration to enhance intercommunal contacts and improve the daily lives of all Cypriots, and consider the advice of the Good Offices Mission of the Secretary-General regarding further ways to empower the Technical Committees and improve their performance;

ensure effective coordination and cooperation on criminal matters;

promote peace education across the island, including by further empowering the Technical Committee on Education to implement the recommendations contained in its joint report of 2017, in particular those concerning policy making, and to address impediments to peace in school materials, including text books, as a contribution to trust-building between the communities;

improve the public atmosphere for negotiation to secure a settlement, including by preparing the communities for a settlement through public messages on convergences and the way ahead, and delivering more constructive and harmonised messages, and by refraining from actions or rhetoric that detracts from a successful process or could make it more difficult to achieve recalling the Secretary-General’s statement of 25 November 2019 in this regard;

increase their support to, and ensure a meaningful role for, civil society engagement in peace efforts, in particular strengthening the participation of women’s organisations and youth in the process, including by empowering the Technical Committee on Gender Equality to meet and develop an action plan supporting women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in peace talks and providing direct support and encouragement to civil society organisations to enhance inter-communal contact and trust-building;

Calls for the establishment of an effective mechanism for direct military contacts between the sides and the relevant involved parties, and urges UNFICYP, as facilitator through its liaison role, to submit proposals in this regard;

Calls upon the sides to reduce existing barriers to intercommunal contact, and emphasizes the importance of effective communication for risk-mitigation and trust-building between the communities;

Welcomes the progress towards the inter-operability of mobile phones across the island, and calls for further work to ensure the arrangement is made more broadly available and affordable to subscribers on both sides of the island, and urges the sides to agree and implement further confidence building measures, including those related to the military, economic cooperation and trade;

Commends the work of the Committee on Missing Persons, and calls upon all parties expeditiously to enhance their cooperation with the Committee’s work, in particular through providing full access to all areas and responding in a timely manner to requests for archival information on possible burial sites;

Expresses its full support for UNFICYP, and decides to extend its mandate for a further period ending on 31 July 2020;

Expresses serious concern at the increased number of violations of the military status quo along the ceasefire lines, calls once more on the sides and all involved parties to respect UNFICYP’s mandated authority in, and delineation of, the buffer zone, urges the use of the 2018 United Nations aide-memoire by the sides to ensure peace and security in the buffer zone, and calls on the two sides to prevent unauthorised activities between the ceasefire lines;

Calls on the Turkish Cypriot side and Turkish forces to restore in Strovilia the military status quo which existed there prior to 30 June 2000, recalls the status of Varosha as set out in relevant resolutions, and reaffirms that UNFICYP’s freedom of movement should be respected;

Welcomes the announcement that 18 suspected hazardous areas across the whole island have now been cleared of mines, and urges both leaders to agree and continue a plan of work to achieve a mine-free Cyprus;

Requests UNFICYP to take fully into account gender considerations as a cross-cutting issue throughout its mandate; requests the Secretary-General and troop- and police-contributing countries to increase the number of women in UNFICYP and ensure the full, equal and meaningful participation of women in all aspects of its operations;

Welcomes the initiatives undertaken by the Secretary-General to standardise a culture of performance in UN peacekeeping, recalls its requests in its resolution 2378 (2017) and resolution 2436 (2018) that the Secretary-General ensure that performance data related to the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations is used to improve mission operations, including decisions such as those regarding deployment, remediation, repatriation and incentives, reaffirms its support 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 the United Nations to apply this framework to UNFICYP as described in resolution 2436 (2018), and notes the efforts of the Secretary-General to develop a comprehensive performance assessment system;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take necessary measures to ensure full compliance of all UNFICYP personnel, civilian and uniformed, including mission leadership and mission support personnel, with the United Nations zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse and to keep the Council fully informed about the Mission’s progress in this regard, stresses the need to prevent such exploitation and abuse and to improve how these allegations are addressed in line with its resolution 2272 (2016), and urges troop and police-contributing countries to continue to take appropriate preventative action, including vetting of all personnel, pre-deployment and in-mission awareness training, and to ensure full accountability in cases of such conduct involving their personnel, including through timely investigations of allegations by troop- and police-contributing countries, and UNFICYP as appropriate, and to take steps to hold perpetrators accountable and repatriate units when there is credible evidence of widespread or systemic sexual exploitation and abuse by those units;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit by 10 July 2020 a report on his Good Offices, in particular on progress towards reaching a consensus starting-point for meaningful results-oriented negotiations leading to a settlement, encourages the leaders of the two communities to provide written updates to the Good Offices Mission of the Secretary-General on the actions they have taken in support of the relevant parts of this resolution since its adoption, in particular with regard to paragraphs 5 and 6, with a view to reaching a sustainable and comprehensive settlement, and further requests the Secretary-General to include the contents of these updates in his Good Offices report; further requests the Secretary-General to submit by 10 July 2020 a report on implementation of this resolution, and to keep the Security Council updated on events as necessary;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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