A/RES/58/191
United Nations
Distr.: General
23 March 2004
General Assembly
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 117 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2003
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/508/Add.2)]
58/191. Situation of human rights in Cambodia
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 57/225 and 57/228 A of 18 December 2002 and
57/228 B of 13 May 2003, Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/79 of
25 April 2003 1 and previous relevant resolutions,
Recalling also the decision of the Commission on Human Rights, in its
resolution 2003/79, to request a report to the Commission at its sixtieth session on
the role and achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights in assisting the Government and the people of Cambodia, and to
continue its consideration of the situation of human rights in Cambodia at its
sixtieth session,
Recognizing that the tragic history of Cambodia requires special measures to
ensure the protection of the human rights of all people in Cambodia and the nonreturn to the policies and practices of the past, as stipulated in the Agreement on a
Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict, signed in Paris on
23 October 1991, 2
I
Support of and cooperation with the United Nations
1.
Requests the Secretary-General, through his Special Representative for
human rights in Cambodia, in collaboration with the office in Cambodia of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to assist the Government of
Cambodia in ensuring the protection of the human rights of all people in Cambodia
and to ensure adequate resources for the continued functioning of the operational
presence of the office and to enable the Special Representative to continue to fulfil
his tasks expeditiously;
Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on the role and
2.
achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
_______________
1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 3 (E/2003/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
A/46/608-S/23177.
03 50604