5. 本报告根据大会第 72/89 号决议提交，大会在该决议中请我就与特别政治任务相关的总体政策事项提交一份报告，包括说明为增强专门知识、成效、透明度、问责制、地域代表性、性别平等视角和妇女平等参与所作的努力。本报告是就这一问题向大会提交的第六次报告，所涉期间为 2017 年 8 月至 2018 年 7 月。报告第二节重点介绍本报告所述期间的主要业务发展。第三节概述了 2018 年 7 月 9日在纽约与会员国就特别政治任务举行的互动对话。第四节讨论了与特别政治任务有关的各种政策问题，第五节载有关于这一工具的重要性以及如何进一步加强这一工具的一些意见。
5. The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 72/89, in which the Assembly requested me to submit a report regarding overall policy matters pertaining to special political missions, including efforts towards improving expertise and effectiveness, transparency, accountability, geographical representation, gender perspective and women’s equal participation. The report, which is the sixth to the Assembly on this issue, covers developments from August 2017 to July 2018. Section II of the report focuses on key operational developments during the reporting period. Section III provides a summary of the interactive dialogue with Member States on special political missions held in New York on 9 July 2018. Section IV addresses various policy issues pertaining to special political missions and section V contains some observations on the importance of this tool and ways to strengthen it further.