Special report of the Secretary-General on the Sudan (S/2011/314)

I. Introduction

1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1978 (2011), by which the Council expressed its readiness to consider the request of the Government of Southern Sudan for a continued United Nations presence and its intent to establish a mission to succeed the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) in South Sudan.

2. The present report provides an assessment of the outstanding provisions of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and outlines my recommendations on the role a United Nations peacekeeping mission could play to facilitate peace consolidation in the new State of South Sudan.