Resolution nº S/RES/2275 (2016) of the United Nations Security Council

• Year: 2016
• Issuer: Security Council of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES/ 2275 (2 016)

Security Council

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Resolution 2275 (2016)

Adopted by the Security Council at its 7655 th mee ting, on

24 Marc h 2016

The S ecurity Counci l,

Reca llin g its pre vious reso lutions an d sta tements of its Pr esident on th e

situa tion in Somalia ,

Reaf firm ing its respe ct for t he sove reignty, t erritori al integ rity, poli tical

inde pendenc e, and u nity of Somalia,

Stron gly co ndemnin g rec ent a ttacks by the te rrorist gro up Al-S habaab,

expre ssing s erious c oncern at t he ongoi ng thre at pose d by Al -Shabaa b, and

reiter atin g its determi nation to suppor t effo rts, includin g th rough a c omprehe nsive

appr oach, to red uce th e thre at pos ed by Al-Sha baab i n Soma lia, i n acco rdance with

appl icable interna tional law, i ncluding inter national huma n righ ts la w, in ternatio nal

refug ee law and inte rnation al human itarian law,

Payi ng tri bute to the brav ery a nd sac rifices ma de by the Afric an Uni on

Miss ion in Somalia (AM ISOM) and Som ali Natio nal Ar my personne l i n th e f ight

agai nst Al-Sha baab ,

Comm end ing the role o f the United N ations Assi stance Mi ssion in So malia

(UNS OM) in supporti ng p eace and reconc iliatio n, th e st ate formati on p rocess and

the p romotio n and pr otectio n of hum an right s in S omalia,

Expre ssin g it s full s upport for the n ew Spec ial Rep resentat ive of the Secr etary -

Gene ral a nd He ad of UNSO M, M ichael Keatin g, an d the new Special

Repr esentati ve of the Chairp erson of the Afric an Union Com mission fo r S omalia

and t he Head of AMIS OM, Fra ncisco Caetano José Ma deira,

Welcoming th e holdin g of the Summit of the Heads o f State and Gov ernment o f

the Tro op and Po lice Contri buting Co untries of AM ISOM in Djibo uti on

28 Fe bruary 2016 , and thei r commitme nt to impr oving coo rdination within AMI SOM,

Welcoming the dec ision b y the Federal Govern ment o f Somal ia on an el ectoral

model for 2016, commending the lead ers of Somalia ’s e xisting and em erging f ederal

member states for th eir effor ts to reach a compromis e, and recallin g t he commi tment

of the FGS and the regional sta te le aders to deliver an elector al pr ocess in A ugust

2016, alongside the d evelopment and imp lementatio n of a roadmap between now and

2020, in particu lar to rea ch one per son, one vo te electio ns by 2020 ,