A/RES/69/163 United Nations Distr.: General 10 February 2015 General Assembly Sixty-ninth session Agenda item 67 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/487)] 69/163. 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 68/152 of 18 December 2013, 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 21/8 of 27 September 2012, 4 24/13 of 26 September 2013 5 and 27/10 of 25 September 2014, 6 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, 7 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 _______________ 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 Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III. 6 Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/69/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. IV, sect. A. 7 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1490, No. 25573. 14-67614 (E) *1467614* Please recycle

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