Security Council Resolution 2753 (2024) [on Transfer of the Mandate of the Un Assistance Mission in Somalia (Unsom) to the Un Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia (Untmis)]

S/RES/2753(2024)View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A document of the Security Council, under agenda item 84The situation in Somalia, published in 2024.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

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What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics

Dissolution Peacebuilding Somalia Somalia Situation Special Missions

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2025.

2025S/2025/613Report of the Secretary-General on Somalia
2025S/2025/194Report of the Secretary-General on Somalia

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What does this mandate say?

11 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the letter dated 30 August 2024 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council, which contained the Federal Government of Somalia’s proposal for the transition of UNSOM to the United Nations Country Team over a two-year period;

Decides that UNSOM, whose mandate is set out in resolution 2158 (2014) and resolution 2592 (2021), and most recently extended by resolution 2705 (2023), shall be called the United Nations Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNTMIS) and that UNTMIS shall begin the formal transition of its functions from 1 November 2024;

Decides that UNTMIS shall deliver a first phase of its transition until 31 October 2025, as per the mandate set out in the resolutions referenced in paragraph 2 to this resolution but modified in line with paragraphs 6 and 7 to this resolution which set out the transition priorities for UNTMIS;

Affirms that the measures set out in paragraph 3 to this resolution constitute the first phase of UNTMIS’s anticipated two-phased transition to a United Nations Country Team and expresses its intention, informed by conditions on the ground, to terminate UNTMIS’s mandate at the end of the anticipated two-phased transition by 31 October 2026;

Calls upon the FGS and Somalia’s Federal Member States to cooperate fully with the UN during UNTMIS’s transition;

Transition priorities

Notes the FGS proposal referred to in paragraph 1 to this resolution, recognises the areas critical to Somalia’s needs during the transition and requests that in the first phase of its transition UNTMIS prioritise:

a. Support to state-building, including the constitutional review process and efforts to conduct free and fair elections, through inclusive and transparent one-person, one-vote processes, including through capacity building, technical assistance and policy guidance, and facilitation of dialogue to promote reconciliation,

b. Promotion and protection of human rights, including through institutional and human capacity building, technical assistance and policy guidance,

c. Support to United Nations entities to ensure system-wide implementation of the Human Rights Due Diligence Policy, where relevant, across United Nations support in country,

d. Rule of law, justice and corrections and security sector support, including through capacity building and technical assistance,

e. Coordination of international donor support, working with bilateral and multilateral partners, including to assist authorities to deliver basic services and community reconciliation, including in areas newly recovered from Al-Shabaab, and,

f. Coordination of United Nations efforts in Somalia,

g. Coordination with ATMIS’s anticipated successor mission, with a view to the progressive and phased transfer of these tasks in the second phase of its transition and requests that UNTMIS begins, from 1 November, planning and working towards the complete handover of any other outstanding tasks by the end of the second phase of UNTMIS’s transition;

Decides that in the first phase of its transition UNTMIS will complete the progressive and phased transfer, to the FGS, the UNCT and other stakeholders, as appropriate, of:

a. Coordination of United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, and promotion of cooperation with relevant partners, to make maximum use of development financing, as well as climate financing, in Somalia in response to climate change,

b. Strategic policy advice on stabilization and disengagement of combatants, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration,

c. Support to the FGS to implement Somalia’s National Strategy and Action Plan for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and support to Somalia’s efforts to become a state party to the international counter-terrorism conventions and protocols,

d. Strategic policy advice on mine action, and,

e. Technical advice and capacity-building to support the FGS and FMS in their efforts to promote child protection, not including activities mandated under resolution 1612 (2005), and to enable the full, equal and meaningful participation of youth in peace and reconciliation efforts, conflict resolution and peacebuilding;

Review and reporting

Requests the Secretary-General prepare, in consultation with the FGS, a roadmap for delivering the first phase of the transition of UNTMIS’s tasks to the FGS, the UNCT and other stakeholders, in accordance with the elements set out in paragraph 7 to this resolution, including the practical modalities for the transition, such as the reduction of UNTMIS personnel, and requests the Secretary-General to update the Council by including this roadmap in the first report referenced in paragraph 9 to this resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to update the Security Council on the situation in Somalia, and on progress made in the implementation of the transition plan, related to the elements set out in paragraph 7 to this resolution, through two written reports, with the first report occurring before 30 March 2025 and the second before 30 September 2025;

Expresses its intention to review the progress of UNTMIS’s transition, as informed by the Secretary-General’s reporting, by 31 October 2025, to support decision-making on timelines for the handover of UNTMIS’s remaining tasks during the second phase of its transition;

Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.

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