3. Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council on the establishment of the Commission of Experts;
4. Further requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council on the conclusions c,f the Commission of Experts and to take account of these conelusions in any recommendations for further appropriate steps called for hy resolution 771 (1992);

civilian personnel as recommended by the Co-Otairmen of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the former Yugoslavia and as requested by the concerned competent authorities."
At its 3147th meeting, on 11 December 1992, the Council discussed the item entitled "Report ofthe Secretary-General on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (S/24923)"."

5. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.
Adopted unanimously at the 3119th meeting

Resolution 795 (1992) or 11 December 1992

Report of the Secretary-General on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

The Security Council,

Decisions
In a letter dated 23 November 1992,104 addressed to the President of the Security Council for the attention of the members of the Council, the Secretary-General referred to the situation in Macedonia and stated that during a visit to United Nations Headquarters in New York on 11 November 1992, Mr. Kiro Gligorov, President of Macedonia, had conveyed to him a request for the deployment of United Nations observers in Macedonia in view of his concern about the possible impact on it of fighting elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia. The Secretary-General added that on 19 November 1992 he had received a recommendation from Mr. C'yrus Vance and Lord Owen, eoChairmen of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the former Yugoslavia, who had themselves had recent conversations with Mr. Gligorov, in favour of the very early deployment to Skopje 0f a small group of Force military and police observers, with supporting political staff. Their immediate mandate would be to visit Macedonia's border areas with Albania and Serbia and prepare a report on how a larger deployment of United Nations military and police personnel might help to strengthen security and confidence in Macedonia. The Secretary-General would envisage such a deployment, undertaken at the request of the competent authorities of Macedonia, as being a preventive deployment of the kind discussed in paragraphs 28 to 32 of his report of 17 June 1992 entitled "An Agenda for Peace". 105 Accordingly he proposed to instruct the Force Commander to dispatch forthwith a group of about a dozen military, police and civilian personnel on an exploratory mission to Macedonia. 'Tbey would be asked to prepare a report on which the Secretary-General could then base a recommendation to the Council for a more substantive deployment of the Force in Macedonia.
In a letter dated 25 November 1992,106 the President of the Security Council informed the Secretary-General as follows:
"I have the honour to inform you that your letter dated 23 November 1992104 has been brought to the attention of the members of the Council. They agree with your proposal of sending a group of military, police and

Recalling its resolution 743 (1992) of 21 February 1992,
Recalling the letter from the President of the Security Council dated 25 November 1992106 conveying the Security Council's agreement to the proposal by the Secretary-General to send an exploratory mission to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Noting the report of the Secretary-General on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia dated 9 December 1992,107
Concerned about possible developments which could undermine confidence and stability in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or threaten its territory,
Welcoming the presence of a mission ofthe Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Considering the request by the Government in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for a United Nations presence there,
Recalling Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations,
1. Approves the report of the Secretary-General of 9 December 1992107 on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia;
2. Authorizes the Secretary-General to establish a presence of the United Nations Protection Force in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as recommended by him in his report, and so to inform the authorities of Albania and those of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro);
3. Requests the Secretary-General to deploy immediately the military, civil affairs, and administrative personnel recommended in his report, and to deploy the police monitors immediately upon receiving the consent of the Government in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to do so;

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5. Requests the Secretary-General to keep the Security

Council regularly informed of the implementation of the present resolution;
6. Decides to remain seized of the matter.
Adopted unanimously at the 3147th meetin&

mE SITUATION IN CAMBODIA108

Decision
At its 3029th meeting, on 8 January 1992, the Council discussed the item entitled 'The situation in Cambodia: report of the Secretary-General on Cambodia (S/23331 and Add.1)".3
Resolution 728 (1992)
or 8 January 1992
The Security Council,
Recalling its resolutions 668 (1990) of20 September 1990, 717 (1991) of 16 October 1991 and 718 (1991) of 31 October 1991,
Welcoming the fact that the United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia has become operational as reported by the Secretary-General in his report of 14 November 1991,109
Welcoming also the progress that has been made in implementing the provisions of the agreements on a comprehensive political settlement of the Cambodia conflict signed in Paris on 23 October 1991110 relating to the functioning of the Supreme National Council of Cambodia under the chairmanship of His Royal Highness Prince Norodom Sihanouk and the maintenance of the cease-fire,
Concerned that the existence of mines and minefields in Cambodia poses a serious hazard to the safety of people in Cambodia, as well as an obstacle to the smooth and timely implementation ofthe agreements, including the early return of Cambodian refugees and displaced persons,
Noting that the Mission's mandate as approved by the Security Council in its resolution 717 (1991) provides, inter alia, for the establishment ofa mine-awareness programme, and that the agreements provide for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia to undertake, inter alia, a programme of assisting with clearing mines and undertaking training programmes in mine clearance and a mine-awareness programme among the Cambodian people,
Considering that the establishment of training programmes in mine clearance, in addition to the existing mine-awareness programme undertaken by the Mission, and the early initiation

of mine clearance are required for the effective implementation of the agreements,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on Cambodia of30 December 1991 and 6 January 1992111 proposing that the mandate of the Mission be expanded to include training in mine clearance and the initiation of a mine-clearance programme,
1. Approves the report of the Secretary-General on Cambodia of 30 December 1991 and 6 January 1992,111 especially the provision of assistance in mine clearing by Cambodians;
2. Calls upon the Supreme National Council of Cambodia, and all the Cambodian parties, to continue to cooperate fully with the United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia, including in the discharge of its expanded mandate;
3. Reiterates its call to all the Cambodian parties to comply scrupulously with the cease-fire and to lend all necessary assistance to the Mission;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to keep the Security Council informed of further developments.
Adopted unanimously at the 3029th meelin&
Decisions
In a letter dated 10 January 1992,112 addressed to the President of the Security Council for the attention of the members of the Council, the Secretary-General referred to resolution 728 (1992) of 8 January 1992, by which the Council had approved his predecessor's report,111 proposing that the mandate of the United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia be expanded to include, in addition to the existing mineawareness programme, training of Cambodians in mine clearance and to initiate a mine-clearance programme.
In the light of the expansion of the Mission's mandate and the consequent increase of its strength, and having completed the necessary consultations, the Secretary-General proposed that Bangladesh, the Netherlands and Thailand be added to the Member States contributing military personnel to the Mission.

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