UN Security Council
2018

three years after it was concluded, and stressing the pressing need to deliver tangible and visible peace dividends to the population in the North and other parts of Mali in order to preserve the relevance of the Agreement as well as to prevent the gains achieved from being potentially reversed, Noting that the slow progress in the implementation of the Agreement, particularly its defence and security provisions, as well as the delayed reform of the security sector, have hampered efforts to restore security in the North of Mali, and stressing that acceleration of the implementation of the Agreement would contribute to enhancing State’s presence and to improving the security situation across Mali and to forestalling attempts by terrorist groups to derail the implementation of the Agreement, Affirming its intention to continue to facilitate, support and follow closely the implementation of the Agreement, Welcoming the appointment of the Carter Center as the Independent Observer referred to in the Agreement, recalling that the mandate of the Independent Observer, as defined by the Agreement, is to objectively evaluate progress towards