S/RES/2352 (2017)
United Nations
Security Council
Distr.: General
15 May 2017
Resolution 2352 (2017)
Adopted by the Security Council at its 7939th meeting, on
15 May 2017
The Security Council,
Recalling its previous resolutions and its presidential statements on the
situation in Sudan and South Sudan, and in particular, resolutions 1990 (2011), 2024
(2011), 2032 (2011), 2046 (2012), 2047 (2012), 2075 (2012), 2104 (2013), 2126
(2013), 2156 (2014), 2179 (2014), 2205 (2015), 2230 (2015), 2251 (2015), 2287
(2016), and 2318 (2016) as well as presidential statements S/PRST/2012/19 and
S/PRST/2013/14, and the Council’s press statements of 18 June 2012, 21 September
2012, 28 September 2012, 6 May 2013, 14 June 2013, 14 February 2014, 17 March
2014, 11 December 2014, and 27 November 2015,
Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and
territorial integrity of Sudan and South Sudan, and to the purposes and the
principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and recalling the importance of the
principles of good neighbourliness, non-interference and regional cooperation,
Reiterating that the territorial boundaries of States shall not be altered by
force, and that any territorial disputes shall be settled exclusively by peaceful
means, affirming the priority it attaches to the full and urgent implementation of all
outstanding issues from the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), and
underscoring that the future status of Abyei shall be resolved by negotiations
between the parties in a manner consistent with the CPA and not by the unilateral
actions of either party,
Recalling the commitments made by the Government of Sudan and the
Government of South Sudan in the 20 June 2011 Agreement between the
Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement on Temporary
Arrangements for the Administration and Security of the Abyei Area, the 29 June
2011 Agreement between the Government of the Sudan and the Government of
South Sudan on Border Security and the Joint Political and Security Mechanism
(JPSM), and the 30 July 2011 Agreement on the Border Monitoring Support Mission
between the Government of Sudan and the Government of South Sudan, as well as
the 27 September 2012 Agreements on Cooperation and Security Arrangements, the
JPSM’s 8 March 2013 decision, and the Implementation Matrix of 12 March 2013,
reached by the Government of Sudan and the Government of South Sudan in Addis
Ababa under the auspices of the African Union High-level Implementation Panel
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