I. Introduction

1. The present report is submitted pursuant to paragraph 15 of Security Council resolution 2047 (2012), in which the Council requested that I continue to inform it at 60-day intervals of progress in the implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), and continue to bring to its attention any serious violations of the 20 June 2011 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. The present report also provides an update on progress made in the tasks mandated to UNISFA under Council resolution 2024 (2011) related to the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism. In addition, the report provides an update on the situation in Abyei and on the deployment and operations of UNISFA since my previous report on the matter (S/2012/175), issued on 23 March 2012.