UN Security Council resolution 856

UN Security Council Resolution 856
Date:	August 10, 1993
Meeting:	3263
Identifier:	S / RES / 856 ( document )
Poll:	Pro: 15  Ent. : 0  Cons: 0
Object:	Situation in Liberia
Result:	Accepted
Composition of the Security Council 1993:
Permanent members:
CHN FRA GBR RUS USA
Non-permanent members:
BRA CPV DJI ESP HUN
JPN MAR NZL PAK VEN
Liberia

The Resolution 856 of the UN Security Council is a resolution that the United Nations Security Council at its 3263rd meeting on 10 August 1993 unanimously decided. After welcoming Resolution 813 (1993) and a peace agreement signed under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) between the Interim Government of National Unity of Liberia (IGNU), the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) and the United Liberation Movement for Democracy (ULIMO) was signed, the Council approved the deployment of 30 military observers to Liberia .

The Council discussed the proposed establishment of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) and also announced that the military observers would participate in the work of the Joint Monitoring Committee on the Ceasefire , in particular to monitor ceasefire violations for a period of three months, to investigate and report. A report from Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was awaited on the proposed establishment of UNOMIL and its financial costs, a time frame and the planned completion of the operation and the cooperation with the ECOWAS peacekeeping force, which is already in Liberia.

All parties to the conflict were called upon to observe and implement the ceasefire and to ensure the safety of all blue helmet soldiers and other peacekeeping and humanitarian workers in the country. He also called for an agreement on the status of armed forces to be concluded . Finally, the efforts of the Organization for African Unity and the Observation Group of the Economic Community of West African States in Liberia were recognized.

See also

• Charles Taylor (politician)
• Liberian Civil War

Web links

• Text of the resolution on undocs.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ ND White: The Law Of International Organizations . Manchester University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-7190-4340-6 , pp. 218 .
2. ↑ Ikechi Mgbeoji: Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order . UBC Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7748-1037-1 , pp. 116 .