United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan

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UNAMA
operation area AfghanistanAfghanistan Afghanistan
German name United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
English name United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Based on UN resolution 1401 (March 28, 2002)
Other UN resolutions 1746 (March 23, 2007), 1806 (March 20, 2008), 1917 (2010), 1974 (2011), 2041 (March 22, 2012), 2096 (March 19, 2013), 2145 (March 17, 2014), 2210 (March 16, 2015)
Type of mission political mission
management South AfricaSouth Africa Nicholas Haysom
Location of the operational area LocationAfghanistan.svg

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan , shortly UNAMA (of English. United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan ), is one of the political mission United Nations (UN), which on 28 March 2002 by the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1401 is based. The mandate has so far been extended annually. In March 2019 the mission was only extended by half a year.

Since October 2014, the mission has been headed by the South African Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom. His predecessors were Ján Kubiš , Kai Eide , Tom Koenigs , Jean Arnault, Lakhdar Brahimi and Staffan de Mistura . The Assistant Special Representative for Reconstruction is Mark Bowden, a British; the German Martin Kobler was the Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs from March 2010 to August 2011; the Japanese Tadamichi Yamamoto has held this position since October 7, 2014. The Bundeswehr - Brigadier General Kay Brinkmann since July 2014 Senior Military Advisor (chief military advisor).

The mission, which is headed by the Peacekeeping Operations Department , has around 1,000 mostly Afghan employees. The headquarters are in Kabul . There are eight regional offices, several sub-offices and liaison offices in Islamabad and Tehran .

Political tasks

From June 12th to 19th, 2002, a Loja Jirga (Emergency Loya Jirga) was held on the premises of the Kabul Polytechnic. Its 1,670 delegates appointed Hamid Karzai as President of the Afghanistan Transitional Government. The Special Independent Commission for the Convening of the Emergency Loya Jirga with its 20 Afghan members established the rules for this election in cooperation with the United Nations. Preparations began in April 2002, with 50 UNAMA staff and other international observers organizing and monitoring the process throughout the country and among refugees outside the country.

A constitutional Loya Jirga then took place on January 4, 2004. 502 delegates passed a constitution drawn up by a nine-member commission.

Furthermore, the task of UNAMA was to accompany the election for President on October 9, 2004 and the election of Parliament on September 18, 2005. Both elections were organized by the Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB), a commission made up of Afghans and representatives of the United Nations. For the parliamentary elections there was also a commission (Media Commission), which monitored the candidates' access to the media, and a commission ( Electoral Complaints Commission ), which was supposed to examine complaints about the election.

Refugees and Reconstruction

UNAMA coordinated the efforts of other UN agencies (such as the UNHCR ) and national and international NGOs . In cooperation with the Afghan transitional government, more than 1 million refugees were supported on their return to Afghanistan. The distribution of food, fertilizer and seeds was also monitored.

Extensions of the mandate

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tagesschau.de: Bundestag extends Afghanistan mandate by one year. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ UNAMA: UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN. Retrieved July 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c unama.unmissions.org: SRSG. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 27, 2013 ; accessed on April 10, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / unama.unmissions.org
  4. ^ Ingrid Müller: A new job in Afghanistan. tagesspiegel .de, July 14, 2014, accessed on March 12, 2015 .
  5. ↑ eurasianet.org: Rules for the election of members of the Emergency Loya Jirga (eng.)
  6. ↑ un.org: Members of the Special Independent Commission
  7. ↑ unama-afg.org: list of members of the constitution- drafting commission
  8. ↑ Wording of UN Security Council Resolution 1806 (PDF; 62 kB)
  9. ↑ United Nations Security Council Resolution 1917 of March 22, 2010.
  10. ↑ un.org: Security Council Extends Mandate of Afghanistan Mission until 23 March 2012, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1974 (2011) , accessed on August 24, 2011
  11. ↑ un.org: Text of UN Security Council Resolution 1806 (PDF; 147 kB)
  12. ^ Resolution 2274 (2016). Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
  13. ^ Resolution 2344 (2017). Retrieved August 14, 2017 .

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