A/RES/76/151
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 73
Right of peoples to self-determination
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on
16 December 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/461, para. 20)]
76/151.
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
75/171 of 16 December 2020, and Human Rights Council resolutions on the subject,
including resolution 48/5 of 7 October 2021, 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
Unity, inter alia, the Organization of African Unity Co nvention for the elimination of
mercenarism in Africa, 1 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-use of force or of the threat of use of force in international relations
and non-interference in affairs within the domestic jurisdiction of States,
Reaffirming also that, by virtue of the principle of self-determination, all
peoples have the right freely to determine their political status and to pursue their
economic, social and cultural development and that every State has the duty to respect
this right in accordance with the provisions of the Charter,
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