A/HRC/RES/18/25
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 October 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Eighteenth session
Agenda item 10
Technical assistance and capacity-building
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
18/25
Advisory services and technical assistance for Cambodia
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and protect human
rights and fundamental freedoms as enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, as
reaffirmed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in accordance with their
respective obligations under the International Covenants on Human Rights and other
applicable human rights instruments,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006,
Recalling also Council resolutions 5/1 on institution-building of the Council and 5/2
on a code of conduct for special procedures mandate holders of the Council, of 18 June
2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his/her duties in accordance
with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Recalling further Council resolution 15/20 of 30 September 2010 and other relevant
resolutions,
Bearing in mind the report of the Secretary-General on the role and achievements of
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in assisting the
Government and people of Cambodia in the promotion and protection of human rights, 1
Recognizing that the tragic history of Cambodia requires special measures to ensure
the protection of human rights and the non-return to the policies and practices of the past, as
stipulated in the Agreement on a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia
Conflict, signed in Paris on 23 October 1991,
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GE.11-16769
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its eighteenth session (A/HRC/18/2), chap. I.
A/HRC/18/47.