A/RES/72/158
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 71
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/438)]
72/158.
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
71/182 of 19 December 2016, and Human Rights Council resolutions 15/12 of
30 September 2010, 1 15/26 of 1 October 2010, 2 18/4 of 29 September 2011, 3 21/8 of
27 September 2012, 4 24/13 of 26 September 2013, 5 27/10 of 25 September 2014, 6
30/6 of 1 October 2015, 7 33/4 of 29 September 2016 8 and 36/3 of 28 September 2017 9
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
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/65/53/Add.1), chap. II.
Ibid., chap. I.
Ibid., Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.1 and
A/66/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1,
A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.1 and
A/71/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. II.
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