Mandate

A general view of the UN Security Council in session in October 2002 as Lakhdar Brahimi, Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan, tells the Security Council that Afghanistan had made a remarkable progress, but needs a continued commitment from its leaders to work together to achieve genuine reconciliation, along with continued and sustained international attention.

UNAMA’s original mandate, laid out in UN Security Council Resolution 1401 (March 2002) was to support the implementation of Bonn Agreement (December 2001). This mandate has changed over time to reflect the needs of the country and was last extended on 16 March 2023, by UN Security Council Resolution 2678 (2023).

Resolution 2678 stresses the important role that the United Nations will continue to play in promoting peace and stability in Afghanistan.

The Security Council also passed a second Resolution 2679 (2023) calling for an integrated and independent assessment with forward-looking recommendations for an "integrated and coherent approach" to address Afghanistan’s challenges.

The United Nations has been involved in the region since 1946 when Afghanistan joined the United Nations as a member state of the Organization.

Previous UN Security resolutions defining UNAMA’s mandate are: 1662 (2006), 1746 (2007), 1806 (2008), 1868 (2009), 1917 (2010), 1974 (2011), 2041 (2012), 2096 (2013), 2145 (2014), 2210 (2015), 2274 (2016), 2344 (2017), 2405 (2018), 2460 (2019), 2489 (2019), 2543 (2020), 2596 (2021), 2626 (2022).