RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AND DECISIONS TAKEN BY THE SECURITY COUNCIL IN 1990

Part I. Questions considered by the Security Council under its responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security

THE SITUATION RELATING TO AFGHANISTAN2

Decisions
In a letter dated 9 January 1990,' the Secretary-General informed the President of the Security Council as follows:
"Pursuant to Security Council resolution 622 (1988), on 20 October 1989 I submitted to the Council a formal report.4 I also kept the Council informed in the course of the year, and more particularly in February 1989.5
"In paragraph 17 of my report of 20 October, I indicated that more still needed to be done for the implementation of the Agreements on the Settlement of the Situation Relating to Afghanistan, signed at Geneva on 14 April 1988,6 and I drew the attention of the parties, as well as the guarantors, to the need to ensure the scrupulous implementation of the ob! igations they had entered into by signing the Geneva Agreements.
"Consequently, after consulting the parties to those Agreements, on whose behalf I approached the Council in April 19887 in order to obtain its consent to the deployment of United Nations military personnel in the region, I should be grateful if you would bring the present letter to the attention of the members of the Security Council and inform me of the Council's agreement8 with the proposal to extend the temporary detachment of military officers to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The concurrence of the countries supplying military personnel has already been secured."
At its 2904th meeting, on 11 January 1990, the Council discussed the item entitled "The situation relating to
2 Resolutions or decisions on this question v..:rc also adopted by the Council in J988and 1989.
3 S/21071. 4 Oj]icial Records of The SecuriTy Council, ForTy-jiwrTh Year, SupplemenT for OcTober, November and Dt·cemht·r 1989, documl>nt S/20911. 5 Ibid., SupplemenT ji>r Junuury. February und March 1989, document S/20465. 6 Ojjicial Rt·cords of The SuuriTy Council, ForTy-Third Year, Supplt·menT for April, May and June 1988, document S/ 19835, annex I. 7 Ibid., documents S/19834 and S/19835. 8 The agreement of the Security Council was conveyed to the Secretary-General by the President of the Security Council after consultations with the members of the Conncil and subsequently confirmed in resolution 647 (1990) of 11 January 1990, the text of which is given below.

Afghanistan: letter dated 9 January 1990 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/21071)".
Resolution 647 (1990)
of 11 January 1990
"lf1e Security Council, Recalling the letters dated 14 and 22 April 19887 from the Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council concerning the Agreements on the Settlement of the Situation Relating to Afghanistan, signed at Geneva on 14 Apri11988,6 Recalling also the note by the Secretary-General of 15 February 19895 and his report of20 October 1989,4 Recalling further its resolution 622 ( 1988) of 31 October 1988, laking note of the letter dated 9 January 1990 from the Secretary-General to the President of the Security Coun·· cil,' l. Confirms its agreement to the measures envisaged in the Secretary-General's letter of 9 January 19903 concerning the arrangements for the temporary deployment in Afghanistan and Pakistan of military officers from existing United Nations operations to assist in the mission of good offices for a further period of two months; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to keep the Security Council informed of further developments in accordance with the Agreements on the Settlement of the Situation Relating to Afghanistan, signed at Geneva on 14 April 1988.''
Adopted unanimously aT The 2904th meeTin);.
Decisions
In a letter dated 12 March 1990,9 the Secretary-General infonned the President of the Council as follows:
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