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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/62
28 January 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 101
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/610)]
51/62.
Measures for prevention of the smuggling
of aliens
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 48/102 of 20 December 1993 in which,
inter alia, it condemned the practice of smuggling aliens and urged States to
take appropriate steps to frustrate the objectives and activities of smugglers
of aliens,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolutions 1994/14 of
25 July 1994 and 1995/10 of 24 July 1995,
Concerned at the increasing activities of criminals and criminal
organizations that profit illicitly by smuggling human beings, preying on the
dignity and lives of migrants and adding to the complexity of the phenomenon
of increasing international migration,
Aware that such activities endanger the lives of those individuals and
impose severe costs on the international community, in particular upon certain
States that have been called upon to rescue and to provide medical care, food,
housing and transportation for those individuals,
Recognizing that international criminal groups often convince
individuals to migrate illegally by various means for enormous profits and use
the proceeds from smuggling human beings to finance other criminal activities,
Noting that smugglers, in particular in the State of destination of
alien smuggling, frequently force migrants into forms of debt, bondage or
servitude, often involving criminal activities, in order to pay for their
passage,
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