1995A/RES/49/150Use of mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determinationLatestCompare with previous version
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1992A/RES/46/89Use of mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determinationCompare with previous version
1991A/RES/45/132Use of mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determinationCompare with previous version
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Takes note of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the use of mercenaries and in particular the concern expressed therein at the continuation of mercenary-related activities despite General Assembly resolution 48/92;
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Reaffirms that the use of mercenaries and their recruitment, financing and training are causes of grave concern to all States and violate the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations;
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Urgesall States to take the necessary steps and to exercise the utmost vigilance against the menace posed by the activities of mercenaries and to ensure by legislative measures that their territory and other territories under their control, as well as their nationals, are not used for the recruitment, assembly, financing, training and transit of mercenaries or for the planning of activities designed to destabilize or overthrow the Government of any State or threaten the territorial integrity of sovereign States, and to fight the national liberation movements struggling against colonial domination and foreign intervention or occupation;
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Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to consider taking early action to sign or to ratify the International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries;
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Urgesall States to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur in the fulfilment of his mandate;
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Once again requests the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat, as a matter of priority, to put more effort into publicizing the adverse effects of mercenary activities, to render advisory services to States that are experiencing the consequences of mercenary activities and to consider organizing, within existing resources, working meetings to analyse and consider the political and legal aspects of the recommendations contained in the report of the Special Rapporteur;
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Requeststhe Special Rapporteur to submit a report with specific recommendations to the General Assembly at its fiftieth session on the new elements identified in the use of mercenaries.
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