UN Security Council resolution 1728

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The Resolution 1728 of the UN Security Council is a resolution to Cyprus , which the United Nations Security Council has adopted unanimously at its 5593rd meeting on December 15 of 2006.

With the resolution, the Security Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) to June 15, 2007. UNFICYP is the third oldest active peace mission of the United Nations and monitors the peace process between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot sides.

With the resolution, the Security Council welcomed the UN Secretary-General's report of December 1 on the work of UNFICYP (document S / 2006/931) and stated that the Cypriot government would extend the UNFICYP mandate beyond December 15, 2006 has agreed.

The Security Council also noted that the situation on the Green Line remained calm and the overall situation remained stable, and welcomed the decline in the number of incidents.

The resolution called on both sides to refrain from such measures as could lead to heightened tensions and explicitly mentions military exercises. In this regard, the Security Council expressed concern at the growing disagreement over civilian activities, including agriculture, in the buffer zone and encouraged both sides to enter into negotiations on the marking of the zone and an agreement on UNFICYP's operations in the zone, while respecting UNFICYP's mandate to be completed on the basis of the auxiliary memorandum of 1989.

The Panel expressed its satisfaction with the performance of Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari in achieving the agreement of July 8, 2006 and with the key points of this agreement. The agreement reached an agreement that the current status quo is permanently unacceptable and that a comprehensive solution - in accordance with earlier UN resolutions - through a federation of two regions with equal political representation is desired, possible and therefore not delayed any further should. At the same time, the Council was disappointed that the Secretary General had stated in his report that a lack of trust between the two sides had delayed the implementation of the agreement.

The Security Council welcomed the progress made in the defusing and removal of landmines and supports UNFICYP's efforts to extend this operation to the minefields created by the Turkish armed forces and welcomes the prospect of mine-freeing the buffer zone within two years to explain.

The Council reaffirmed its position that the problem of missing persons needs to be addressed seriously and urgently, welcomed the resumption of activities and progress made by the Committee on Missing Persons since August 2004 and the appointment of a third member Secretary General.

The resolution also welcomed the peaceful visits by Greek Cypriots in the north and Turkish Cypriots in the south and suggested the opening of additional crossing points, including Ledra Street .

In the resolution, however, the Security Council regretted that the bilateral meetings became less frequent and that the possibilities for promoting reconciliation and the building of trust between the two sides were reduced.

The Security Council confirmed the importance of further close monitoring of the mission and also of developments on the ground and of the opinions of those involved in order to be able to adapt UNFICYP's mandate in good time.

The panel thanked the governments of Greece and Cyprus for their voluntary contributions to UNFICYP funding and urged other states and organizations to make voluntary contributions as well.

With the resolution, the Security Council called on all previous relevant resolutions, in particular resolution 1251 of the UN Security Council of 29 June 1999 and based on them resolutions, Turkish Cypriots and the Turkish army called for in Strovilia the military status quo of to restore before June 30, 2000 and requests the Secretary General to report to the Security Council on the implementation of the resolution before the new mandate expires on June 30, 2007.

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