The Security Council today decided to terminate the mandate of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) under resolution 2579 (2021) and begin winding down its operations over a three-month period slated to end on 29 February 2024.
Press Releases and Statements
- 26 May 2021 - General Salva Kiir, President of the Republic of South Sudan and patron of the Mediation Committee, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Chairman of the Sovereign...
- 04 May 2021 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sudan, Volker Perthes, will be traveling to Juba, South Sudan this week in advance of the upcoming round of peace talks scheduled for 25 May between the Transitional Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation...
- 25 Apr 2021 - Following the 2020 request made to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, by the Transitional Government of Sudan for support in the holding of elections, and as encapsulated in Security Council resolution 2524, a United Nations Electoral Needs...
- 09 Mar 2021 - Madam President Thank you, Madam President, for the opportunity to brief the Security Council. It is my first briefing to this Council and I am grateful to the Secretary-General and also to the Council for the confidence they...
- 24 Feb 2021 - The political landscape in Sudan changed dramatically in 2019, thanks to the Sudanese men, women and young people who rose up in massive numbers to demand change. Their movement culminated in an agreement signed on 17 August 2019 to establish a civilian-led transitional...
- 23 Feb 2021 - The Secretary-General condemns the looting of the first site, Saraf Umrah in Darfur, handed over to the Sudanese authorities following the end of the UNAMID mandate in December 2020. At a time when community needs in Sudan are increasingly pressing, the site was intended to...
- 18 Feb 2021 - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Khardiata Lo N’Diaye of Senegal as his new Deputy Special Representative for Sudan with the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), serving also as the...
- 14 Feb 2021 - I just had a fruitful first meeting with Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok to hear directly from him the priorities of the new government. In our meeting, we discussed the UNITAMS mandate and its four strategic and interrelated pillars...
- 09 Feb 2021 - Statement from Mr. Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Sudan and Head of United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) on the formation of the new Government....
- 02 Feb 2021 - Mr. Volker Perthes, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, arrived Khartoum on 2 February 2021. Mr. Volker Perthes arrived in Khartoum early this morning to take up his functions as Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Sudan...