UN Security Council Resolution 1834 was adopted unanimously by the 15 member states of the United Nations Security Council

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, extending the United Nations

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 mission in Chad

Chad

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 and the Central African Republic

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The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...

 (MINURCAT) until March 15, 2009, which was due to expire on September 25, 2008.

Background

The United Nations mission in Chad and the Central African Republic, MINURCAT(United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad ), was established in the UN Security Council Resolution 1778 on September 25, 2007, which would leave a multidimensional force in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) to help create security conductive to a voluntary and sustainable return of Refugee

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s. The mission was created due to an estimated 230,000 refugees fleeing Darfur

Darfur

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 into eastern Chard and north-eastern CAR. Continued cross border assaults from Sudanese rebels have endangered refugees and local residents alike. The same resolution also authorized a European Union

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 military deployment to support MINURCAT’s activities for one year, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter

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.

Before the vote, the Security Council held several meetings to discuss the resolution that would extend the United Nations mission in the region and have the United Nations take over the European Union

European Union

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 led military force (EUFOR).

5981st Security Council meeting

The 15 members of the United Nations Security Council convened at the United Nations headquarters in New York

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 on September 24, 2008 to discuss extending the mandate on the mission to Chad and the Central African Republic, which was due to expire the next day. The meeting was called to order at 3:15 PM, with the President of the Security Council, Michel Kafando

Michel Kafando

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 of Burkina Faso

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, introducing Ahmad Allam-Mi

Ahmad Allam-Mi

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 the representative of Chad who had been invited to sit in on the meeting. Members were given document S/2008/616, which contained the text of a draft resolution submitted by Belgium

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, Costa Rica

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, Croatia

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, France

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, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the United States of America. Members of the Council also were given document S/2008/601 and Addendum 1, which contained the report of the Secretary-General

Secretary-General

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 on the United Nations Mission on the Central African Republic and Chad.

The United Kingdom

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 representative Sir John Sawers

John Sawers

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 expressed their support for the resolution, though listed a few concerns. "But there is much work to be done before the
Council can take a firm decision on a new peacekeeping mission," he said. "An expanded United Nations mission in Chad needs clear objectives, an achievable mandate, a sensible time frame for deployment, measurable benchmarks and a realistic end state that, once achieved, will enable the force to withdraw. We also question whether a force twice the size of EUFOR is needed." He also expressed reservation over a military presence in the Central African Republic, seeing no value to it, as well as calling for a 'disciplined and strategic approach to the management of scarce peacekeeping resources.'

The proceeding vote on the draft for the Resolution found all 15 members in favor, leading to the adoption of the draft resolution as Resolution 1834.

-	Country	Vote	Representative
	Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...	Yes	Jan Grauls Jan Grauls Baron Jan Grauls, born 12 February 1948, is the Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Belgium. He is married and has three daughters and one son. He began his appointment June 2008.-Education:...
	Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...	Yes	Michel Kafando Michel Kafando Michel Kafando is a Burkinabé diplomat. He has been the Permanent Representative of Burkina Faso to the United Nations since 1998; previously he served in the Burkinabé government as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1983.-Background:Kafando was born in Ouagadougou...
	People's Republic of China People's Republic of China China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...	Yes	Wang Guangya Wang Guangya Wang Guangya , born March 1950 in Jiangsu Province People's Republic of China, is a Chinese diplomat who is currently Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. A career diplomat, Wang was previously Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs...
	Costa Rica Costa Rica Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....	Yes	Jorge Urbina Jorge Urbina Jorge Urbina, born on 2 May 1946, is the Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Costa Rica. He assumed the position in October 2006...
	Croatia Croatia Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...	Yes	Neven Jurica Neven Jurica Neven Jurica is a Croatian politician who worked in Croatian diplomacy between 1992 and 2009. Between February 2008 and September 2009 he was the Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations.-Biography:...
	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	Yes	Jean-Maurice Ripert
	Indonesia Indonesia Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...	Yes	Marty Natalegawa Marty Natalegawa Raden Mohammad Marty Muliana Natalegawa, more commonly known as Marty Natalegawa, is an Indonesian diplomat and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet...
	Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	Yes	Marcello Spatafora Marcello Spatafora Marcello Spatafora is an Italian diplomat, former Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations.-Career:Marcello Spatafora was born in Innsbruck, Austria...
	Libya Libya Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....	Yes	Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi is Libya's UN ambassador and held a Security Council chair for the January 2008 – December 2009 term. He was General Secretary of the People's Committee in Libya for two terms, the first term from 2 March 1979 to 16 February 1984 and the second term from September, 1986 to...
	Panama Panama Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...	Yes	Ricardo Alberto Arias Ricardo Alberto Arias Ricardo Alberto Arias was the Panamanian Ambassador to the United Nations, serving from 2004 to 2009...
	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	Yes	Vitaly Churkin
	South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...	Yes	Dumisani Kumalo Dumisani Kumalo Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo is a South African diplomat, currently serving as the Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations....
	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	Yes	John Sawers John Sawers Sir Robert John Sawers, KCMG is a British diplomat and senior civil servant. He is the current Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service...
	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Yes	Zalmay Khalilzad Zalmay Khalilzad Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and president of Khalilzad Associates, an international business consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush...
	Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...	Yes	Lê Lương Minh Lê Luong Minh Lê Lương Minh is a Vietnamese politician and diplomat.Since February 17, 2004, he has been Vietnam's ambassador to the UN in New York City. He held this office from 1995 to 1997 for the UN institutions in Geneva and as a deputy in New York City from 1997 to 1999...