8014th Security Council Meeting: Situation in Cyprus

Security Council Renews Mandate of United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus for 6 Months, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2369 (2017)

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 00:05:13
• Production Date: 27 July 2017
• Asset Language: Arabic; Chinese; English; French; Russian; Spanish
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN CYPRUS - UNFICYP
• Subject Topical: PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
• Geographic Subject: CYPRUS
• MAMS Id: 1940414
• Parent Id: 1940063

Description

The Security Council today renewed the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) for six months today, while asking the Secretary-General to conduct a strategic review of the mission.

Unanimously adopting resolution 2369 (2017), the Council extended UNFICYP’s mandate until 31 January 2018. Noting that the most recent Conference on Cyprus had not resulted in a settlement, it called on the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leadership to continue to engage, as a matter of urgency, in consultations with the mission on the demarcation of a buffer zone and on the 1989 aide-mémoire, with a view to reaching early agreement on outstanding issues.

Also by that text, the Council requested that the Secretary-General conduct a review of UNFICYP and make recommendations on how the mission should be optimally configured to implement its existing mandate, exclusively on the basis of a rigorous, evidence-based assessment of the impact of its activities, and to report on the results of the review within four months.

Egypt’s representative called on all parties to respect the sovereignty and independence of Cyprus as an independent State. Stressing the importance of UNFICYP, he called for a continued role for the mission in creating a safe environment in Cyprus and supporting efforts to relaunch communications between the parties. Cyprus was a friendly country with economic, political and cultural ties to Egypt, he said, expressing hope that a just settlement would be reached through a transparent and inclusive process.

The meeting began at 10:05 a.m. and ended at 10:10 a.m.