A/RES/56/173 (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; 4. 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; 6

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