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UNITED
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General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/49/150
7 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 94
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/49/752)]
49/150.
Use of mercenaries as a means to violate
human rights and to impede the exercise of
the right of peoples to self-determination
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 48/92 of 20 December 1993,
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, territorial integrity of States and selfdetermination of peoples,
Urging strict respect for the principle of the non-use or threat of the
use of force in international relations, as developed in the Declaration on
Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation
among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, 1/
Recognizing that mercenaries are used for activities that violate those
principles,
Concerned about the menace that the activities of mercenaries represent
for all States, particularly African and other developing States,
Alarmed at the continued international criminal activities of
mercenaries in collusion with drug traffickers,
Recalling all of its relevant resolutions, in which, inter alia, it
condemned any State that permitted or tolerated the recruitment, financing,
training, assembly, transit and 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
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Resolution 2625 (XXV), annex.