A/RES/72/89
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 December 2017
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 56
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 December 2017
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/72/450)]
72/89.
Comprehensive review of special political missions
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations,
Recalling its resolutions 67/123 of 18 December 2012, 68/85 of 11 December
2013, 69/95 of 5 December 2014, 70/92 of 9 December 2015 and 71/100 of
6 December 2016 on the comprehensive review of special political missions,
Reaffirming its commitment to respecting the sovereignty, territorial integrity
and political independence of all States,
Recalling the primary role of the United Nations and the respective roles and
authority of the General Assembly and the Security Council in the maintenance of
international peace and security in accordance with the Charter, and recalling also in
this context the contribution of regional and subregional arrangements and the
important role they can play, as appropriate,
Acknowledging the adoption by the General Assembly and the Security
Council of substantively identical resolutions 70/262 and 2282 (2016) of 27 April
2016, based on the report of the Advisory Group of Experts on the Review of the
Peacebuilding Architecture, 1 which enhance the focus on sustaining peace as a goal
and a process, including through conflict-prevention efforts across the Organization,
and recognizing in this regard the important role played by special political
missions in this area, where mandated,
Encouraging enhanced exchanges of information, in an appropriate manner,
among the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Secretariat, making use
of the advisory role of the Peacebuilding Commission, when relevant, on overall
policy matters pertaining to special political missions,
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See A/69/968-S/2015/490.
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