A/RES/67/88. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2012

• Year: 2012
• Resolution Number: A/RES/67/88
• Session: 67th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/67/88

General Assembly Distr.: General

14 January 2013

Sixty-seventh session

Agenda item 76

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 14 December 2012

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/67/464)]

67/88. Criminal accountability of United Nations officials

and experts on mission

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolution 59/281 of 29 March 2005, in which it endorsed the

recommendation of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations that the

Secretary-General make available to the United Nations membership a

comprehensive report on the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse in United

Nations peacekeeping operations,

1

Recalling also

that the Secretary-General, on 24 March 2005, transmitted to

the President of the General Assembly a report of his Adviser concerning sexual

exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeeping personnel,

2

Recalling further

its resolution 59/300 of 22 June 2005, in which it endorsed

the recommendation of the Special Committee that a group of legal experts be

established to provide advice on the best way to proceed so as to ensure that the

original intent of the Charter of the United Nations can be achieved, namely that

United Nations staff and experts on mission would never be effectively exempt from

the consequences of criminal acts committed at their duty station, nor unjustly

penalized, without due process,

3

Recognizing

the valuable contribution of United Nations officials and experts

on mission towards the fulfilment of the purposes and principles of the Charter,

Reaffirming

the need to promote and ensure respect for the principles and rules

of international law,

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1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 19 (A/59/19/Rev.1), part

one, chap. III, sect. D, para. 56.

2 See A/59/710.

3 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 19 (A/59/19/Rev.1), part

two, chap. II, sect. N, para. 40 (a).