A/RES/68/105. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Year: 2013
• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/105
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES/68/105

General Assembly

Distr.: General

18 December 2013

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 78

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2013

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/68/461)]

68/105. Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and

experts on mission

The Genera l Assem bly

,

Reca lling

its res olution 59/281 of 2 9 Marc h 2005, in w hich it end orsed th e

reco mmend ation of the Sp ecial C ommitt ee on P eacekee ping Op eratio ns that the

Secr etary-G eneral make avai lable to the Unite d Nat ions memb ership a

comp rehens ive r eport on the iss ue of sexua l exp loitati on an d abu se in Unit ed

Nati ons pe acekeep ing op eration s,

1

Reca lling als o

that the S ecretar y-Gene ral, on 24 M arch 200 5, transmi tted to

the Pre sident of t he Genera l Assembl y a r eport of hi s A dviser co ncerni ng sexual

expl oitatio n and abuse b y Unite d Nati ons pea cekeep ing pe rsonnel ,

2

Reca lling furt her

its r esolut ion 59/300 of 22 Ju ne 2 005, in which it endor sed

the r ecomm endatio n of th e Speci al Com mittee that a gro up of l egal ex perts b e

esta blished to pr ovide adv ice on the best wa y to pr oceed so as to ens ure that the

orig inal inten t of th e Ch arter of the Uni ted Nation s c an be a chieve d, n amely, that

Unit ed Nat ions st aff and exper ts on mission would never be effe ctivel y exemp t from

the cons equence s of c rimina l acts comm itted a t their duty stati on, no r unjus tly

pena lized, withou t due p rocess,

3

Reco gnizing

the v aluable co ntributi on o f Un ited Nation s off icials and expe rts

on m ission toward s the f ulfilme nt of t he pur poses a nd pri nciples of the Charte r,

Reaffirming

the need to pro mote a nd ensu re resp ect fo r the p rincip les and rules

of i nternat ional l aw,

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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).