A/RES/73/101
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 57
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 December 2018
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/73/526)]
73/101.
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, 71/100 of 6 December
2016 and 72/89 of 7 December 2017 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,
Recalling also the adoption by the General Assembly and the Security Council
of substantively identical resolutions 70/262 and 2282 (2016) of 27 April 2016,
further recalling the adoption of resolutions 72/276 and 2413 (2018) of 26 April 2018
on peacebuilding and sustaining peace, and recognizing in this regard the important
role played by special political missions in the area of sustaining peace, as a goal and
a process, where mandated,
Recognizing the important role of the special political missions as a flexible tool
for the maintenance of international peace and security, including through
contributions to a comprehensive approach to peacebuilding a nd sustaining peace,
Noting that the relevant reforms, in particular of the peace and security pillar,
are an opportunity to further advance and strengthen the work of special political
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