United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/65/203
Distr.: General
16 March 2011
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 67
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/455)]
65/203. 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
64/151 of 18 December 2009, and Human Rights Council resolutions 15/12 of
30 September 2010 1 and 15/26 of 1 October 2010, 2 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 Convention for the elimination
of mercenarism in Africa, 3 as well as by the African Union, 4
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
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1),
chap. II.
2
Ibid., chap. I.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1490, No. 25573.
4
On 8 July 2002, the Organization of African Unity ceased to exist and, in its place, the African Union
came into force on 9 July 2002.
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