United Nations Security Council Resolution 1711

Resolution 1711 of the UN Security Council is a resolution, adopted unanimously on 29 September 2006 at its 5541st meeting of the United Nations Security Council. The purpose of Resolution is the extension of the mandate of the Mission de l' Organisation des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo (MONUC ) until 15 February 2007, with the strength remained unchanged.

The Security Council appealed to its previous resolutions concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in particular resolutions 1565, 1592, 1596, 1621, 1628, 1635, 1671 and 1693, as well as its resolutions 1650, 1669 and 1692 on the situation in Burundi and the great Lakes region of Africa.

The Security Council criticized and condemned the clashes between armed supporters of the two random candidate in Kinshasa from 20 to 22 August 2006 with continuation of hostilities between guerrillas and armed foreign units in the eastern part of the country and the violation of human rights by these and by certain units of the Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo ( FARDC ), as well as the continuing violations by the UN Resolution 1493 imposed and extended by resolution 1596 arms embargo.

Due to the 22nd report of the UN Secretary-General on MONUC dated 22 September 2006 ( document S/2006/759 ), the Security Council decided under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations on the extension of the mandate until February 15, 2007, including maintaining the increased personnel strength of the soldiers and civilian police forces up to that date. With the Security Council Resolution 1669, the Secretary General was authorized to regroup units of the United Nations Mission in Burundi and to provide MONUC. This authorization extended the Panel against the background of the expiry of ONUB mission only until 31 December 2006. ( The Council decided in this context, by this date to ensure that even then MONUC has a sufficient strength to fulfill the mandate. )

On 15 February 2007 was extended until April 15, with Resolution 1742 (2007), the mandate of MONUC.

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