United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan

UNGOMAP
operation area	Afghanistan , Pakistan
German name	United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan
English name	United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Based on UN resolution	622 (October 31, 1988)
Type of mission	Peace mission
Beginning	May 1988
The End	March 1990

The mission of the good the United Nations services in Afghanistan and Pakistan ( English United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan , UNGOMAP ), a UN peacekeeping mission , based on the UN Resolution 622 of 31 October 1988, took place from May 1988 to March 1990.

Due to the military intervention of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, there were lengthy debates in the Security Council , but none of them came to a result. By a personal intervention by Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar and his Personal Representative came in 1988 finally to Geneva Afghanistan agreement by which Afghanistan and Pakistan were committed to mutual non-interference and voluntary repatriation of refugees and the Soviet Union was asked its troops to withdraw. After the signing of the agreements, the Security Council authorized UNGOMAP to monitor the implementation of the agreement.

literature

• Günther Führer: UNGOMAP 1988 - 1990 . In: Christian Segur-Cabanac , Wolfgang Etschmann (ed.): 50 years of foreign missions of the Austrian Armed Forces (= writings on the history of the Austrian Armed Forces ). Published by the General Staff of the Federal Ministry for National Defense and Sport and the Museum of Military History , Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502653-1-6 , p. 597 ff.