1. 特别政治任务仍然是联合国应对日益严重的全球和平与安全挑战的至关重要的资产，它们继续不断演变以满足新的需求。特别政治任务在任务规定、范围、机构设计和所用方法方面存在很大差异。这些任务包括开展斡旋工作的特使和特别代表、监督安全理事会制裁制度的各类监测组、执行解除武装等专门任务的小型外地特派团以及履行全面授权任务以支持政治过渡和建设可持续和平努力的多层面行动。中部非洲、中亚和西非的三个联合国区域办事处作为预防外交和对话的前沿平台，与区域对应方开展非常密切的合作，以解决影响其所在区域的跨国和平与安全问题。
1. Special political missions remain critical assets for the United Nations response to growing global peace and security challenges and they continue to evolve to meet new requirements. The missions vary considerably with regard to their mandates, scope, institutional design and approaches. They range from special envoys and representatives carrying out good offices mandates to monitoring teams, groups and panels overseeing Security Council sanctions regimes, small field-based missions delivering on specialized tasks such as disarmament, and multidimensional operations with comprehensive mandates to support political transitions and efforts to build sustainable peace. Three United Nations regional offices in Central Africa, Central Asia and West Africa serve as forward platforms for preventive diplomacy and dialogue and work very closely with their regional counterparts on transnational peace and security issues affecting the regions in which they are based.