A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/52/112 18 February 1998 Fifty-second session Agenda item 111 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/643)] 52/112. Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the rights of peoples to self-determination The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 49/150 of 23 December 1994, 50/138 of 21 December 1995 and 51/83 of 12 December 1996, 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 and 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 of the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and the Organization of African Unity, 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, territorial integrity of States, the non-use of force or threat of use of force in international relations and self-determination of peoples, Alarmed and concerned about the danger which the activities of mercenaries constitute to peace and security in developing countries, in particular in Africa and in small States, where democratically elected Governments have been overthrown by mercenaries or through mercenary international criminal activities, 98-76795 /...