United Nations Mission in Sudan
The United Nations Mission in Sudan, UNMIS short (English: the United Nations Mission in Sudan ) was a UN peacekeeping mission in the African country of Sudan.
On 9 January 2005, the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army ( SPLA) in Kenya closed the Naivasha peace treaty, ending the ongoing war of secession in South Sudan since 1983. The United Nations Security Council decided that with the resolution 1590 on 24 March 2005, the establishment of a mission (UNMIS ), which aimed to secure peace in the region of South Sudan. The UN Resolution 1590 of 2005, which the UN peacekeeping mission has since been extended several times.
UNMIS resigned as chief negotiator for the international community in a similar role, as it was perceived during the War of the Operation Lifeline Sudan. The organization consisted of a military and a civilian component. There were up to 10,000 soldiers to be stationed in the country, of which a maximum of 750 military observers. In the civil sector were up to 700 police officers throughout the territory of Sudan are used. Overall, soldiers and police officers from 58 different nations were employed there. Main troop contributor with responsibility for sectors were India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Zambia and Kenya, the purpose each presented at least one protective battalion and possibly camp operating components. Russia also presented Army Components for air reconnaissance, while China and Cambodia supported with Feldlagerbetriebskomponentent and logistics.
The area of application was limited since relocation / disarm the SPLA in the room Kassala end of 2006 and its processing by a Nepalese sector to the South Sudan and the adjacent disputed areas of Abyei, Nuba Mountains and Southern Blue Nile.
Germany also participated in the mission. The German Bundestag voted on 22 April 2005, that the Federal Republic will participate with up to 75 unarmed military observers and up to five police officers and staff for the bars to UNMIS. On 17 September 2008 a further contribution has been adopted by the Bundestag. There were always 30-40 members of the Armed Forces involved in UNMIS, including four staff officers in the headquarters in Khartoum.
The independence referendum in South Sudan 2011, which was held in accordance with the peace agreement, the voters decided overwhelmingly in favor of independence. The Sudanese government subsequently announced that no longer agree to a further UNMIS presence on nordsudanesischem area after independence of South Sudan. The mandate of UNMIS was terminated on 11 July 2011 with the resolution 1997 of the UN Security Council July 9, 2011, the date of the declaration of independence of the South. In May, UNMIS began with the withdrawal of personnel and resources from the north.
At the request of the government of independent South Sudan, the United Nations Security Council, the successor mission UNMISS with the resolution 1996 of the UN Security Council.
In addition to the UNMIS continued to exist, the African Union / United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur in the western Sudan region of Darfur.