Security Council Resolution 1599 (2005) [on Establishment of the Un Office in Timor-Leste (Unotil) as a One-Year Follow-On Special Political Mission in Timor-Leste]

S/RES/1599(2005)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Security Council, under agenda item 180 The situation in Timor-Leste, published in 2005.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2005–2006

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2006	S/2006/251	End of mandate report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (for the period 14 January to 12 April 2006)	S/RES/1599(2005)
2006	S/2006/24	Progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (for the period 16 August 2005 to 13 January 2006)	S/RES/1599(2005)
2005	A/60/425	Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or Security Council report of the Secretary-General	S/RES/1599(2005)
2005	S/2005/533	Progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (for the period 13 May to 15 August 2005)	S/RES/1599(2005)

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15 operative paragraphs

Decides to establish a one-year follow-on special political mission in Timor-Leste, the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL), which will remain in Timor-Leste until 20 May 2006;

Decides further that UNOTIL will have the following mandate:

to support the development of critical State institutions through provision of up to 45 civilian advisers;

to support further development of the police through provision of up to 40 police advisers, and support for development of the Border Patrol Unit (BPU), through provision of up to 35 additional advisers, 15 of whom may be military advisers;

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to provide training in observance of democratic governance and human rights through provision of up to 10 human rights officers; and

to monitor and review progress in (i) through (iii ) above;

Requests that, when implementing its mandate, UNOTIL emphasize proper transfer of skills and knowledge in order to build the capacity of the public institutions of Timor-Leste to deliver their services in accordance with international principles of rule of law, justice, human rights, democratic governance, transparency, accountability and professionalism;

Requests further that UNOTIL be led by a Special Representative of the Secretary-General, who will direct the operations of the mission and coordinate all United Nations activities in Timor-Leste through his office, with due attention to safety of personnel, and facilitated by appropriate levels of logistics support, including transportation assets, such as air transport when necessary;

Requests that the Secretary-General deploy some of the advisers, authorized in paragraph 2 (ii) above, to assist the National Police of Timor-Leste in developing procedures for and in training the Border Patrol Unit (BPU) and to assist the Timor-Leste Government in coordinating contacts with the Indonesian military, with the objective of transferring skills to the BPU to assume full responsibility for such coordination as soon as possible;

Underlines that United Nations assistance to Timor-Leste should be coordinated with the efforts of bilateral and multilateral donors, regional mechanisms, non-governmental organizations, private sector organizations and other actors from within the international community, and encourages the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to establish and chair a consultative group, made up of these stakeholders in Timor-Leste, that will meet regularly for that purpose;

Urges the donor community as well as the United Nations agencies and multilateral financial institutions to continue providing resources and assistance for the implementation of projects towards sustainable and long-term development in Timor-Leste, and urges the donor community to actively participate in the donor’s conference scheduled to be held in April 2005;

Encourages, in particular, the Government of Timor-Leste, UNOTIL, the United Nations Secretariat, United Nations development and humanitarian agencies, and multilateral financial institutions to start immediately planning for a smooth and rapid transition, in Timor-Leste, from a special political mission to a sustainable development assistance framework;

Reaffirms the need for credible accountability for the serious human rights violations committed in East Timor in 1999, and, in this regard, underlines the need for the United Nations Secretariat, in agreement with Timor-Leste authorities, to preserve a complete copy of all the records compiled by the Serious Crimes Unit, calls on all parties to cooperate fully with the work of the Secretary-General’s Commission of Experts, and looks forward to the Commission’s upcoming report exploring possible ways to address this issue, including ways of assisting the Truth and Friendship Commission, which Indonesia and Timor-Leste have agreed to establish;

Requests the Secretary-General to keep the Council closely and regularly informed of developments on the ground and of the implementation of the mandate of UNOTIL, and the planning for a transition to a sustainable development assistance framework, and to submit a report within four months of the date of adoption of the present resolution and every four months thereafter, with recommendations for any modifications such progress might allow to size, composition, mandate and duration of the UNOTIL presence;

Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.

Security Council Resolution 1599 (2005) [on Establishment of the Un Office in Timor-Leste (Unotil) as a One-Year Follow-On Special Political Mission in Timor-Leste]

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