Sudan: Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Abyei (S/2015/439)

I. Introduction

1. The present report is submitted pursuant to paragraph 27 of Security Council resolution 2205 (2015), in which the Council requested me to continue to inform it of progress in the implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) and to bring to its immediate attention any serious violation of the Agreement between the Government of the Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement on temporary arrangements for the administration and security of the Abyei Area, of 20 June 2011 (S/2011/384, annex). It provides an update on the situation in Abyei and on the deployment and operations of UNISFA since the issuance of my previous report, of 29 April 2015 (S/2015/302), as well as on progress made in the implementation of the additional tasks mandated to UNISFA under Council resolution 2024 (2011) relating to the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism.