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(g) To cease all military activity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
which breaches the ceasefire provided for in the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement and
the Kampala disengagement plan, including the Harare sub-plans, and the relevant
resolutions of the Security Council, and urges all foreign forces to withdraw without
delay from the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
(h) To put an immediate end to the recruitment and use of child soldiers,
which are in contravention of the international human rights standards, and to
extend unreserved cooperation to the United Nations Organization Mission in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and
humanitarian organizations in order to ensure the rapid demobilization of child
soldiers, their return home and their rehabilitation;
(i) To define and implement all measures necessary to create conditions
conducive to the voluntary return, in safety and with dignity, of all refugees and
displaced persons and to ensure their fair and lawful treatment;
(j) To authorize access, in complete freedom and security, to the zones
which they control in order to permit investigations into violations of human rights
and international human rights law;
(k) To cooperate fully with the National Commission responsible for
investigating allegations concerning the massacre of a large number of refugees and
displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as with the
Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in
considering the allegations in question, with a view to submitting to the SecretaryGeneral, through the National Commission, a further progress report on the
investigations concerning this matter;
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Calls upon the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to
take specific measures in order:
(a) To comply fully with its obligations under international human rights law
and to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, to fulfil its
responsibility to protect the human rights of the population in its territory, as well as
to take a leading part in efforts to prevent conditions that might lead to further flows
of internally displaced persons and refugees within the Democratic Republic of the
Congo and at its borders;
(b) To fulfil its commitment to reform and restore the judicial system and, in
particular, its declared intention progressively to abolish the death penalty, as well
as to reform military justice, in conformity with the provisions of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,2 while encouraging the continuation of the
moratorium on executions in force;
(c) To put an end to impunity and to fulfil its responsibility to ensure that
those responsible for human rights violations and grave breaches of international
humanitarian law are brought to justice;
(d) To create, in accordance with its undertakings as stipulated in the Lusaka
Ceasefire Agreement, and particularly the articles concerning the Inter-Congolese
Dialogue, conditions that would allow for a democratization process that is genuine
and all-inclusive and that fully responds to the aspirations of all people in the
country, and to complete the administrative procedures required to permit activities
by political parties and prepare for the holding of democratic, free and transparent
elections;
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