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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/92
28 February 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 110 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/619/Add.2)]
51/92.
Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions
The General Assembly,
Considering that the subject of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions has been discussed in the United Nations for many years1 within the
framework of discussions on human rights based on the general recognition of
the right to life of every person as guaranteed by the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights,2 the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights3 and a large number of other international human rights
instruments, that extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions can be fought
effectively only through a genuine will on the part of Governments to enforce
the safeguards and guarantees for the protection of the right to life of every
person, that declarations of commitment to the protection of the right to life
by Governments are only effective if they are translated into practice and
respected by all and that, if the aim is protection of the right to life, the
emphasis must be on prevention of all forms of violations of this fundamental
right,
1
The most recent resolutions are General Assembly resolution 49/191 and
Commission on Human Rights resolution 1996/74 (for the latter, see Official
Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1996, Supplement No. 3 (E/1996/23),
chap. II, sect. A.).
2
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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