A/RES/71/182. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2016

• Year: 2016
• Resolution Number: A/RES/71/182
• Session: 71st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/71/182

General Assembly

Distr.: General

23 January 2017

Seventy-first session

Agenda item 67

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/483)]

71/182 . Use o f mercenaries as a means o f viola ting human rights

and im peding the ex ercise of the right of peop les

to self-de termin ation

The General Assembly,

Recalling all of its previous resolutions on the subject, includ ing resolution 70/142 of

17 December 2015, and Human Rights Council resolutions 15/12 of 30 September 2010,

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15/26 of 1 October 2010,

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18/4 of 29 September 2011,

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21/8 of 27 September 2012 ,

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24/13

of 26 September 2013,

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27/10 of 25 September 2014,

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30/6 of 1 October 2015

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and 33/4 of

29 September 2016,

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as well as all resolutions adopted by the Commission o n 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 overthro wing the Governments of States Members

of the United Na tions, especially those of developing countries, or of f ighting 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 Counc il and the Organization of African Unity, inter alia, th e

Organization of African Unity Con vention for the elimination o f 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-

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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.

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

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Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1 and Corr.1 and 2),

chap. IV, sect. A.

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Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1), chap. III.

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Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II.

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