Comprehensive Review of Special Political Missions

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 52 Comprehensive review of special political missions, published in 2025.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 2013–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/83	Comprehensive review of special political missions	1,700	89%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/92	Comprehensive review of special political missions	1,531	78%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/79	Comprehensive review of special political missions	1,411	84%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/127	Comprehensive review of special political missions	1,371	94%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/83	Comprehensive review of special political missions	1,326	79%Compare

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Prevention, management and resolution of conflicts	122

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Prevention, management and resolution of conflicts	122	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

14 reports · 2013–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/332	Overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/83
2025	A/80/322	Overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/92
2024	A/79/303	Overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/79
2023	A/78/307	Overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/127
2022	A/77/283	Overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/83

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Special Missions

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to resolution 79/92;³

³A/80/322.

Requests the Secretary-General to hold regular, inclusive and interactive dialogue on the overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions, with a view to enhancing their efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, responsiveness, transparency and accountability, and further requests the Secretariat to reach out to Member States, including through timely and transparent communication, prior to the holding of such dialogue to ensure wide and meaningful participation;

Respects the purview of the mandate of special political missions, as stipulated in the respective relevant resolutions, recognizes the specificity of each mandate of such missions, and emphasizes the role of the General Assembly in discussing the overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions;

Encourages stronger coordination, coherence and cooperation of the Security Council and the General Assembly with the Peacebuilding Commission, and invites the Security Council to continue to regularly request, deliberate and draw upon the specific, strategic and targeted advice of the Commission, including to assist with the longer-term perspective required for sustaining peace being reflected in the formation, review, transition and drawdown of peacekeeping operations and special political missions mandates in cooperation with host Governments, in line with General Assembly resolution 70/262 and Security Council resolution 2282 (2016);

Encourages special political missions to continue fostering inclusive partnerships with regional and subregional organizations and other relevant stakeholders, as appropriate and in line with respective mandates and in accordance with Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, to address multidimensional and evolving challenges to peace and security, including during transitions;

Also encourages special political missions to work closely with host Governments, the United Nations country teams and, where consistent with their mandates, with relevant partners, to ensure coherence and coordination;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its eighty-first session a timely, results-based report on the implementation of the present resolution regarding the overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions, including lessons learned, efforts and recommendations towards improving expertise and effectiveness, transparency, accountability, geographical representation, gender perspective and the full, safe, equal and meaningful participation of women, including in peace processes, as well as the full, effective, safe and meaningful participation of youth, including in peace processes, in particular in mediation and political processes;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-first session the item entitled “Comprehensive review of special political missions” and to consider the above-mentioned report of the Secretary-General under that item.

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