UN Security Council Resolution 1327 on Peacekeeping

Resolution 1327
The Security Council,
Recalling its resolution 1318 (2000) of 7 September 2000, adopted at
its meeting at the level of Heads of State and Government on the
course of the Millennium Summit,
Reaffirming its determination to strengthen United Nations
peacekeeping operations,
Stressing that peacekeeping operations should strictly observe the
purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Having welcomed the report of the Panel on United Nations Peace
Operations (S/2000/809) and welcoming the report of the
Secretary-General on its implementation (S/2000/1081),
Having considered the recommendations in the report of the Panel on
United Nations Peace Operations which fall within its area of
responsibility,
1. Agrees to adopt the decisions and recommendations contained in the
annex to the resolution;
2. Decides to review periodically the implementation of the provisions
contained in the annex;
3. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.
Annex
The Security Council,
I
Resolves to give peacekeeping operations clear, credible and
achievable mandates;
Recognizes the critical importance of peacekeeping operations having,
where appropriate and within their mandates, a credible deterrent
capability;
Urges the parties to prospective peace agreements, including regional
and subregional organizations and arrangements, to coordinate and
cooperate fully with the United Nations from an early stage in
negotiations, bearing in mind the need for any provisions for a
peacekeeping operation to meet minimum conditions, including the need
for a clear political objective, the practicability of the designated
tasks and timelines, and compliance with the rules and principles of
international law, in particular international humanitarian, human
rights and refugee law;
Requests the Secretary-General, in this regard, to make necessary
arrangements for the appropriate involvement of the United Nations in
peace negotiations that are likely to provide for the deployment of
United Nations peacekeepers;
Further requests the Secretary-General to keep it regularly and fully
informed of the progress in such negotiations with his analysis,
assessment and recommendations, and to report to the Council on the
conclusion of any such peace agreement, on whether it meets the
minimum conditions for United Nations peacekeeping operations;
Requests the Secretariat to continue to provide comprehensive
political briefings on relevant issues before the Council;
Requests regular military briefings from the Secretariat, including by
the Military Adviser, the Force Commander or the Force
Commander-designate, both prior to the establishment of a peacekeeping
operation and in the implementation phase, and requests that these
briefings report on key military factors such as, where appropriate,
the chain of command, force structure, unity and cohesion of the
force, training and equipment, risk assessment and rules of
engagement;
Requests regular civilian police briefings from the Secretariat in a
similar vein, both prior to the establishment and in the
implementation phase of peacekeeping operations with significant
civilian police components;
Requests the Secretariat to provide the Council with regular,
comprehensive humanitarian briefings for countries where there are
United Nations peacekeeping operations;
Encourages the Secretary-General, during the planning and preparation
of a peacekeeping operation, to take all possible measures at his
disposal to facilitate rapid deployment, and agrees to assist the
Secretary-General, wherever appropriate, with specific planning
mandates requesting him to take the necessary administrative steps to
prepare the rapid deployment of a mission;
Undertakes, when establishing or enlarging a peacekeeping operation,
to request formally that the Secretary-General proceed to the
implementation phase of the mandate upon receipt of firm commitments
to provide sufficient numbers of adequately trained and equipped
troops and other critical mission support elements;
Encourages the Secretary-General to begin his consultations with
potential troop contributors well in advance of the establishment of
peacekeeping operations, and requests him to report on his
consultations during the consideration of new mandates;
Recognizes that the problem of the commitment gap with regard to
personnel and equipment for peacekeeping operations requires the
assumption by all Member States of the shared responsibility to
support United Nations peacekeeping;
Emphasizes the importance of Member States taking the necessary and
appropriate steps to ensure the capability of their peacekeepers to
fulfill the mandates assigned to them, underlines the importance of
international cooperation in this regard, including the training of
peacekeepers, and invites Member States to incorporate HIV/AIDS
awareness training into their national programmes in preparation for
deployment;
Underlines the importance of an improved system of consultations among
the troop-contributing countries, the Secretary-General and the
Security Council, in order to foster a common understanding of the
situation on the ground, of the mission's mandate and of its
implementation;
Agrees, in this regard, to strengthen significantly the existing
system of consultations through the holding of private meetings with
troop-contributing countries, including at their request, and without
prejudice to the provisional rules of procedure of the Security
Council, in particular when the Secretary-General has identified
potential troop-contributing countries for a new or ongoing
peacekeeping operation, during the implementation phase of an
operation, when considering a change in, or renewal or completion of a
peacekeeping mandate, or when a rapid deterioration in the situation
on the ground threatens the safety and security of United Nations
peacekeepers;
II
Undertakes to ensure that the mandated tasks of peacekeeping
operations are appropriate to the situation on the ground, including
such factors as the prospects for success, the potential need to
protect civilians and the possibility that some parties may seek to
undermine peace through violence;
Emphasizes that the rules of engagement for United Nations
peacekeeping forces should be fully consistent with the legal basis of
the operation and any relevant Security Council resolutions and
clearly set out the circumstances in which force may be used to
protect all mission components and personnel, military or civilian,
and that the rules of engagement should support the accomplishment of
the mission's mandate;
Requests the Secretary-General, following full consultations with the
United Nations membership, in particular troop-contributing countries,
to prepare a comprehensive operational doctrine for the military
component of United Nations peacekeeping operations and submit it to
the Security Council and the General Assembly;
III
Stresses the need to improve the information gathering and analysis
capacity of the Secretariat, with a view to improving the quality of
advice to both the Secretary-General and the Security Council, and
welcomes, in this regard, the clarifications provided by the
Secretary-General in his implementation report on his plans for the
establishment of the Executive Committee on Peace and Security
Information and Strategic Analysis Secretariat (S/2000/1081);
IV
Stresses the importance of the United Nations being able to respond
and deploy a peacekeeping operation rapidly upon the adoption by the
Security Council of a resolution establishing its mandate, and notes
that rapid deployment is a comprehensive concept that will require
improvements in a number of areas;
Calls on all relevant parties to work towards the objective of meeting
the timelines for United Nations peacekeeping operations of deployment
of a traditional peacekeeping operation within 30 days and of a
complex operation within 90 days of the adoption of a Security Council
resolution establishing its mandate;
Welcomes the Secretary-General's intention to use these timelines as
the basis for evaluating the capacity of existing systems to provide
field missions with the human, material, financial and information
assets that they require;
Welcomes the proposal of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations
to create integrated mission task forces, and urges the
Secretary-General to pursue this or any other related capabilities
that would improve United Nations planning and support capacities;
Emphasizes the need for the Secretariat to provide the leadership of a
peacekeeping operation with strategic guidance and plans for
anticipating and overcoming any challenges to the implementation of a
mandate, and stresses that such guidance should be formulated in
cooperation with the mission leadership;
Welcomes the proposals of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations
on improving the capacity of the United Nations to deploy military,
civilian police and other personnel rapidly, including through the
United Nations standby arrangements system, and urges the
Secretary-General to consult current and potential troop-contributing
countries on how best to achieve this important objective;
Undertakes to consider the possibility of using the Military Staff
Committee as one of the means of enhancing the United Nations
peacekeeping capacity;
V
Emphasizes that the biggest deterrent to violent conflict is
addressing the root causes of conflict, including through the
promotion of sustainable development and a democratic society based on
a strong rule of law and civic institutions, including adherence to
all human rights -- civil, political, economic, social and cultural;
Concurs with the Secretary-General that every step taken towards
reducing poverty and achieving broad-based economic growth is a step
towards conflict prevention;
Stresses the important role of the Secretary-General in the prevention
of armed conflicts, and looks forward to his report on this issue,
which is to be submitted to Member States by May 2001;
Expresses its continued willingness to consider the use of Council
missions, with the consent of host countries, in order to determine
whether any dispute, or situation which might lead to international
tension or give rise to a dispute, is likely to endanger the
maintenance of international peace and security, and to make
recommendations for action by the Council where appropriate;
Recalls the statements of its President of 20 July 2000 (PRST/2000/25)
and 30 November 1999 (PRST/1999/34) on the prevention of armed
conflict and welcomes, in this context, the Secretary-General's
intention to send fact-finding missions to areas of tension more
frequently;
Recalls resolution 1296 (2000) of 19 April 2000 on the protection of
civilians in armed conflict, and looks forward to receiving the
Secretary-General's follow-up report in this context;
Reaffirms the important role of women in the prevention and resolution
of conflicts and in post-conflict peace-building, and fully endorses
the urgent need to mainstream a gender perspective into peacekeeping
operations;
Calls for the full implementation of its resolution 1325 (2000) of 31
October 2000;
VI
Welcomes the decision by the Secretary-General to instruct the
Executive Committee on Peace and Security to formulate a plan on the
strengthening of the United Nations capacity to develop peace-building
strategies and to implement programmes in support of them, and
requests the Secretary-General to submit recommendations to the
Security Council and the General Assembly on the basis of this plan;
Recognizes that stronger measures to reduce poverty and promote
economic growth are important for the success of peace-building;
Emphasizes, in this regard, the need for more effective coordination
of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes, and
reaffirms that adequate and timely funding for these programmes is
critical to the success of peace processes;
Welcomes the Secretary-General's intention to spell out more clearly,
when presenting future concepts of operations, what the United Nations
system can do to help strengthen local rule of law and human rights
institutions, drawing on existing civilian police, human rights,
gender and judicial expertise;
VII
Welcomes the Secretary-General's intention to conduct a needs
assessment of the areas in which it would be feasible and useful to
draft a simple, common set of interim rules of criminal procedure.

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