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UN Security Council
Resolution 2027 |
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| Date: | 20 December 2011 |
| Meeting no.: | 6,691 |
| Code: | S/RES/2027 (Document) |
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| Vote: | For: 15 Abs.: 0 Against: 0 |
| Subject: | The situation in Burundi |
| Result: | Adopted |
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2027 was unanimously adopted on 20 December 2011, after recalling resolutions 1719 (2006), 1791 (2007), 1858 (2008) and 1902 (2009) and 1959 (2010).
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Welcoming Burundi’s progress towards peace, stability and development, yet noting continuing human rights violations with grave concern, the Security Council decided today to extend the mandate of the United Nations mission in that country for another year.
Unanimously adopting resolution 2027 (2011), the Council also decided to extend until 15 February 2013 the mandate of the United Nations Office in Burundi (BNUB), to continue its support for the Government of Burundi in the areas of socio-economic development, reintegrating conflict-affected populations and deepening the country’s regional integration.
The Council stressed the need for a thorough, credible, impartial and transparent investigation of serious crimes, and called upon the authorities to put an end to extrajudicial killings and other such criminal acts, while ensuring the promotion and protection of human rights. By further terms, it underscored the importance of security-sector reform, and urged all international partners to continue supporting the Government’s efforts to enhance the capacity of the national security services.
Calling upon the Government to take all necessary steps to prevent further human rights violations and to ensure swift justice, the Council also encouraged it to pursue peace consolidation and reconstruction efforts in a regional perspective, especially through projects fostering peace, reconciliation and exchange within the East African Community, the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. The Council encouraged the Government to redouble efforts to pursue structural reforms aimed at improving political, economic and administrative governance and tackling corruption, with a view to setting up strong drivers for sustained and equitable social and economic growth.
Before today’s action, Burundi’s representative reminded the Council that a decade of armed conflict in his country had left behind poverty, arms proliferation, crime, land conflicts and an absence of moral standards or political ethics — a veritable “breeding ground for reaping the profits of chaos”. Faced with those vast challenges, the Government had “rolled up its sleeves”, dealing first with army and police reform, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration. Burundi had also adopted a good governance strategy, created a national land commission, and established an ombudsman office, as well as a national human rights commission.[1]
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