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 15 March 2024, by UN Security Council Resolution 2727 (2024).

Resolution 2727 stresses the important role that the United Nations will continue to play in promoting peace and stability in Afghanistan.

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), 2678 (2023), 2679 (2023).