A/RES/68/152. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/152
• Year: 2013
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/68/152

General Assembly Distr.: General

12 February 2014

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 68

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/455)]

68/152. Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human

rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples

to self-determination

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

all of its previous resolutions on the subject, including resolution

67/159 of 20 December 2012, and Human Rights Council resolutions 15/12 of

30 September 2010,

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15/26 of 1 October 2010,

2

18/4 of 29 September 2011,

3

21/8 of

27 September 2012

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and 24/13 of 26 September 2013,

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as well as all resolutions

adopted by the Commission on Human Rights in this regard,

Recalling also

all of its relevant resolutions, in which, inter alia, it condemned

any State that permitted or tolerated the recruitment, financing, training, assembly,

transit or use of mercenaries with the objective of overthrowing the Governments of

States Members of the United Nations, especially those of developing countries, or

of fighting against national liberation movements, and recalling further the relevant

resolutions and international instruments adopted by the General Assembly, the

Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and the Organization of African

Unity, inter alia, the Organization of African Unity Convention for the elimination

of mercenarism in Africa,

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as well as by the African Union,

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, the territorial integrity of States, the self-determination of

peoples, the non-use of force or of the threat of use of force in international

relations and non-interference in affairs within the domestic jurisdiction of States,

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1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1),

chap. II.

2 Ibid., chap. I.

3 Ibid., Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II.

4 Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III.

5 Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.

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