A/RES/57/338
United Nations
Distr.: General
23 September 2003
General Assembly
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 10
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.83/Rev.1)]
57/338. Condemnation of the attack on United Nations personnel
and premises in Baghdad
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recognizing the selfless commitment of the United Nations staff members who
serve the ideals of the United Nations around the world,
1.
Strongly condemns the atrocious and deliberate attack on the United
Nations Office in Baghdad on 19 August 2003, which killed fifteen United Nations
staff members, the largest number ever in one incident, and seven others, and
wounded more than one hundred persons;
2.
Pays special tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights and Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral for Iraq, and his colleagues who perished in this senseless tragedy;
3.
Expresses its condolences to all the families and loved ones of those who
lost their lives;
4.
Urgently calls for international cooperation to find and bring to justice
the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of this vicious act;
5.
Calls for intensified international cooperation to prevent and eradicate
such acts of terrorism and to hold accountable all those who participate in such acts;
6.
Reaffirms the determination of the United Nations to assist the Iraqi
people to build peace and justice in their country and to determine their own
political future by themselves, and welcomes in this regard the determination of the
Organization to continue its operation in Iraq to fulfil its mandate in the service of
the Iraqi people and not to be intimidated by such attacks.
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