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United Nations Peacekeeping
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Closure of UNMIS
UNMIS wound up its operations on 9 July 2011 with the completion of the interim period agreed on by the Government of Sudan and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed on 9 January 2005.
The mission ended its six years of mandated operations the same day South Sudan declared independence, following a CPA-provided referendum on 9 January 2011 that voted overwhelmingly in favour of secession.
In support of the new nation, the Security Council established a successor mission to UNMIS – the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) – on 9 July for an initial period of one year, with the intention to renew for further periods as required.
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- The Security Council decided to withdraw UNMIS effective 11 July 2011 and requests the Secretary-General to transfer appropriate staff, equipment, supplies and other assets from UNMIS to the new UN peacekeeping– UNMISS and UNISFA [S/RES/1997(2011)]
- Press Conference by SRSG Haile Menkerios on the end of the Mission
- Secretary-General’s remarks to the media in Khartoum on South Sudan independence.
