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CHAPTER 7: Section 3 Changes

To avoid Chinese and US vetoes, Security Council adopts a modest Afghanistan resolution

18 March 2019

On 15 March 2019, the Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2460 (2019) extending the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan for six months.  This was the first time since the Council established UNAMA in 2002 that the Mission was not renewed for a 12-month period . . . 

Renewing the term of Secretary-General U Thant: “The case of the missing resolution”

2 April 2018

After the Security Council convened in private on 30 November 1962 to recommend extending the term of Secretary-General U Thant, the actual resolution adopted by the Council at that meeting “disappeared” . . . 

As penholder for Afghanistan, Japan tackles problem of overlong resolutions

25 August 2017

Japan, as penholder on Afghanistan, began work on the 2017 draft resolution on UNAMA with the intention of drastically reducing its length, so as to make it more concise, targeted, and user-friendly . . .

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