S/RES/2282 (2016)
United Nations
Security Council
Distr.: General
27 April 2016
Resolution 2282 (2016)
Adopted by the Security Council at its 7680th meeting, on
27 April 2016
The Security Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming its resolutions 1645 (2005), 1646 (2005) and 1947 (2010), and
recalling its resolutions 2171 (2014), 1325 (2000) and its subsequent resolutions,
and 2250 (2015) and the Statements of the President of the Security Council
S/PRST/2001/5, S/PRST/2011/4, S/PRST/2012/29 and S/PRST/2015/2, and
recalling General Assembly Resolutions A/69/313, A/70/6 and A/70/1,
Taking note of the report of the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace
Operations (A/70/95-S/2015/446) and the report of the Secretary-General on the
Implementation of the Recommendations of the High-Level Independent Panel on
Peace Operations of 17 June 2015 (A/70/357-S/2015/682) and the report of the
Secretary-General of 17 September 2015 (S/2015/716) submitting the results of the
Global Study on the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), and encouraging
coherence, synergies, and complementarities in taking them forward,
Recognizing that development, peace and security, and human rights are
interlinked and mutually reinforcing,
Reaffirming its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international
peace and security, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,
Deeply concerned by the high human cost and suffering caused by armed
conflicts, and recognizing the significant number of simultaneous security and
humanitarian crises that the world currently faces, and the strain that this places on
the resources of the United Nations’ system,
Recalling the determination of the peoples of the United Nations to save
succeeding generations from the scourge of war, further recalling the determination
to establish a just and lasting peace all over the world in accordance with the
purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recognizing that ‘sustaining peace’, as drawn from the Advisory Group of
Experts report, should be broadly understood as a goal and a process to build a
common vision of a society, ensuring that the needs of all segments of the
population are taken into account, which encompasses activities aimed at preventing
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