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(d) To put an end to impunity and to ensure that those responsible for human
rights violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law are brought to
justice;
(e) Along with other parties to the inter-Congolese dialogue, to reach
agreement with the utmost urgency on a fully inclusive transitional Government
which can assert its authority and re-establish order throughout the territory of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo;
(f) To continue to facilitate and further strengthen its cooperation with the
human rights field office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
(g) To continue to cooperate with the International Tribunal for Rwanda, and
demands that the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo continue to
arrest all known génocidaires in its territory;
6.
Calls upon the Governments whose forces are in occupation of part of
the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to respect human rights and
international humanitarian law in the areas still under their control and to withdraw
their troops;
7.
Calls upon the international community to support the human rights field
office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in order to make possible the
effective implementation of its programmes;
8.
Decides:
(a) To continue to examine the situation of human rights in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo and to request the Special Rapporteur to report to the
General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session;
(b) To request the Special Rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights
on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and on
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and a member of the Working Group
on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances of the Commission to carry out, as soon
as security considerations permit and, where appropriate, in cooperation with the
National Commission of Inquiry to investigate alleged human rights violations and
breaches of international humanitarian law in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
between 1996 and 1997, a joint mission to investigate all massacres carried out on
the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a view to bringing to
justice those responsible, and to report to the Commission on Human Rights at its
fifty-ninth session and to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session;
(c) To request the Secretary-General to give the Special Rapporteurs and the
joint mission all necessary assistance to enable them to discharge their mandate
fully;
(d) To request the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
provide the technical skills needed by the joint mission to discharge its mandate.
77th plenary meeting
18 December 2002
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