A/RES/67/159
United Nations
Distr.: General
26 February 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 68
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/456 and Corr.1)]
67/159. 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
66/147 of 19 December 2011, and Human Rights Council resolutions 15/12 of
30 September 2010, 1 15/26 of 1 October 2010, 2 18/4 of 29 September 2011 3 and
21/8 of 27 September 2012, 4 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, 5 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,
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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
Ibid., Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II.
4
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III.
5
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1490, No. 25573.
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