United Nations Security Council resolution 717, adopted unanimously on 16 October 1991, after noting a report by the Secretary-General
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra (; ; 19 January 1920 – 4 March 2020) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991. He later served as Prime Mini ...
and reaffirming
Resolution 668 (1990), the Council decided to establish the
United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia
FCU – UNTAC, the Force Communications Unit UNTAC (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia), was the Australian component of the UNTAC mission in Cambodia.
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
After Vietnam intervened in ...
(UNAMIC) immediately after the signing of agreements for a political settlement in
Cambodia
Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand t ...
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UNAMIC would consist of the deployment of 1,504 personnel in order to help the Cambodian parties maintain a
ceasefire
A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Ceasefires may be between state act ...
until the deployment of the
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) ar, سلطة الأمم المتحدة الانتقالية في كمبوديا, italics=off zh, , italics=offfrench: Autorité provisoire des Nations unies au Cambodgerussian: Орг ...
.
The resolution called for the co-operation of the Supreme National Council of Cambodia and all parties with the Mission regarding the implementation of the agreements in the political settlement, welcoming the decision of the co-chairman of the Paris Conference to reconvene it at an early date in order to sign the agreements.
Finally, Resolution 717 required the Secretary-General to submit a report on developments in the situation by 15 November 1991.
See also
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(1991–1993)
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Modern Cambodia
After the fall of the Pol Pot regime of Democratic Kampuchea, Cambodia was under Vietnamese occupation and a pro-Hanoi government, the People's Republic of Kampuchea, was established. A civil war raged during the 1980s opposing the government's Kam ...
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 718
United Nations Security Council resolution 718, adopted unanimously on 31 October 1991, after recalling resolutions United Nations Security Council Resolution 668, 668 (1990) and United Nations Security Council Resolution 717, 717 (1991), and no ...
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Transition of the People's Republic of Kampuchea to Cambodia
References
External links
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Text of the Resolution at undocs.org
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