The UN responsibility for the cholera outbreak in Haiti 2016, para. 30
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While the brevity of the present report precludes a detailed legal analysis, the basic principles are clear. The United Nations has long accepted that, as an attribute of its international legal personality, it can incur obligations and liabilities of a private law nature. It also recognizes its international responsibility for damages caused by the activities of United Nations forces within this framework. In its resolution 52/247 (1998) on third-party liability the General Assembly set up a special regime to deal with third-party claims in the context of peacekeeping missions, although it set temporal, financial and other limitations to that liability.
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights