Security Council resolution 832 (1993) [on the enlargement of the mandate of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador]
Symbol: S/RES/832(1993)
Date: 1993-05-27
Status: adopted
Agenda: S/48 [92] EL SALVADOR SITUATION
S/48 [93] UN OBSERVER MISSION IN EL SALVADOR
Subjects: UN Observer Mission in El Salvador|Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional-Frente Democrático Revolucionario (El Salvador)|UN Commission on the Truth for El Salvador|UN. Special Representative of the Secretary-General in El Salvador|Acuerdo de Paz (El Salvador) (1992)|FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE|PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS|ELECTIONS|ELECTION VERIFICATION|LAND REFORM|POLICE|ARMED FORCES|POLITICAL PARTIES|EL SALVADOR|EL SALVADOR SITUATION|GOOD OFFICES
Votes in favour: 15
Votes against: 0
Abstentions: 0
Voting record:
country: BRAZIL
vote: yes
country: CAPE VERDE
vote: yes
country: CHINA
vote: yes
country: DJIBOUTI
vote: yes
country: FRANCE
vote: yes
country: HUNGARY
vote: yes
country: JAPAN
vote: yes
country: MOROCCO
vote: yes
country: NEW ZEALAND
vote: yes
country: PAKISTAN
vote: yes
country: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
vote: yes
country: SPAIN
vote: yes
country: UNITED KINGDOM
vote: yes
country: UNITED STATES
vote: yes
country: VENEZUELA
vote: yes

RESOLUTION 832 (1993)

Adopted by the Security Council at its 3223rd meeting,
on 27 May 1993

 

The Security Council,

Recalling its resolution 637 (1989) of 27 July 1989,

Recalling also its resolutions 693 (1991) of 20 May 1991, 714 (1991) of
30 September 1991, 729 (1992) of 14 January 1992, 784 (1992) of 30 October 1992
and 791 (1992) of 30 November 1992, .
Having studied the report of the Secretary-General (S/25812 and Add.1l
and 2),

Noting with appreciation the continuing efforts of the Secretary-General to
support the full implementation of the agreements signed by the Government of
El Salvador and the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberacíon Naciona] (FMLN) to
re-establish peace and promote reconciliation in El Salvador,

Welcoming the observation by the Secretary-General that sixteen months
after the cease-fire, the peace process in El Salvador has advanced
significantly and is on course, and that significant progress has also been made
towards other principal objectives of the Peace Accords,

Emphasizing that determined efforts are required of both parties to ensure
that the remaining problems do not become obstacles to the continuing fulfilment
of their undertakings,

Noting that the Government of El Salvador has requested the United Nations
to verify the next general elections scheduled to be held in March 1994 and that
the Secretary-General has recommended that this request be accepted,

Stressing the necessity, in this as in other peace-keeping operations, to

continue to monitor expenditures carefully during this period of increasing
demands on peace-keeping resources,

1. Approves the report of the Secretary-General;

2. Welcomes the continuing adaptation by the Secretary-General of the
activities and strength of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador
(ONUSAL), taking into account progress made in implementing the peace process;

3. Decides, on the basis of the Secretary-General's report and in
accordance with the provisions of resolution 693 (1991), to enlarge the mandate
of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL), to include the
observation of the electoral process due to conclude with the general elections
in El Salvador in March 1994, and requests the Secretary-General to take the
necessary measures to this effect;

4. Also decides that the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission
in El Salvador (ONUSAL), enlarged in accordance with this resolution, will be
extended until 30 November i993 and that it will be reviewed at that time on the
basis of recommendations to be presented by the Secretary-General;

5. Endorses the view of the Secretary~General, contained in his letter of
26 January 1993 to the President of the Security Council (S$/25241), that the
general elections of March 1994 should constitute the logical culmination of the
entire peace process in El Salvador;

6. Urges the Government of El Salvador and the Frente Farabundo Martí
para la Liberacíon Nacional (FMLN) to respect and implement fully all the
commitments they assumed under the Peace Accords, including, inter alia, those
related to the transfer of lands, the reinsertion into civilian society of
ex-combatants and war wounded, the deployment of the National Civil Police and
the phasing out of the National Police, and the recommendations of the Ad Hoc
Commission eon the purification of the Armed Forces and the Commission on the
Truth;

7. Reaffirms its support for the Secretary-General's use of his good
offices in the El Salvador peace process;


8. Calls upon both parties to cooperate fully with the
Secretary-General's Special Representative and the United Nations Observer
Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL) in their task of assisting and verifying the
parties' implementation of their commitments and requests the parties to
continue to exercise utmost moderation and restraint, especially in the former
zones of conflict, in order to promote the process of national reconciliation;

9. Urges all States, as well as the international institutions in the
fields of development and finance, to contribute generously in support of the
execution of the Peace Accords and the consolidation of peace in El Salvador;

10. Requests the Secretary-General to keep the Security Council fully
informed of further developments in the El Salvador peace process and to report
on the operations of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador
(ONUSAL), at the latest before the expiry of the new mandate period;

11. Decides to remain seized of the matter.