United Nations Security Council Resolution 1713

Resolution 1713 of the UN Security Council is a resolution to the conflict in Darfur, adopted unanimously on 29 September 2006 at its 5543rd session of the United Nations Security Council. The resolution, which was adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, the mandate of a four-member expert group was extended with an observer function by one year to 29 September 2007.

The Security Council appealed to its previous resolutions 1556, 1591, 1651, and 1665th The panel underlined the commitment for the implementation of the General Peace Agreement of 9 January 2005 and the cessation of violence and persecution in Darfur and urged the parties to the conflict, the agreement had not yet signed to do so immediately. At the same time the parties were asked to stop hostilities immediately and to refrain from further violent attacks.

With the resolution the Security Council recognized the sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and independence of the Sudan and called for the principles of good neighborliness, non- interference and cooperation between the countries in the region in memory and found that the situation in Sudan a threat to peace and represents the stability of the region.

The resolution extends the expert group to five members and urges all States, the relevant United Nations bodies, and the African Union to cooperate fully with the group and to provide all information relating to the implementation of the measures in the 1556 and were arranged in 1591.