A/RES/76/83
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 57
Comprehensive review of special political missions
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 9 December 2021
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/76/419, para. 8)]
76/83.
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 resolution 67/123 of 18 December 2012 and its subsequent
resolutions on the comprehensive review of special political missions, including
resolution 75/100 of 10 December 2020,
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, as well as resolutions 75/201 and 2558 (2020) of 21 December
2020 on the third review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture,
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 and sustaining peace,
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