A/RES/48/92. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1993

• Resolution Number: A/RES/48/92
• Session: 48th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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A/RES/48/92

16 February 1994

Forty-eighth session

Agenda item 108 (a)

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/626)]

48/92. Use of mercernaries as a means to violate human rights

and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to

self-determination

The General Assembly,

Recalling its resolution 47/84 of 16 December 1992 on the use of

mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of

the right of peoples to self-determination,

Reaffirming the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the

United Nations concerning the strict observance of the principles of sovereign

equality, political independence, territorial integrity of States and

self-determination of peoples,

Urging strict respect for the principle of the non-use or threat of the

use of force in international relations, as developed in the Declaration on

Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation

among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, 1/

Reaffirming also the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples and their

liberation movements for their independence, territorial integrity, national

unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign

intervention and occupation, and that their legitimate struggle can in no way

be considered as or equated to mercenary activity,

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1/ Resolution 2625 (XXV), annex.

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