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(e) To ensure full respect for freedom of opinion and expression, including
freedom of the press in relation to all types of mass media, as well as freedom of
association and assembly;
(f) To remove the restrictions that still affect the work of non-governmental
organizations and to promote human rights awareness, particularly by strengthening
cooperation with civil society, including all human rights organizations;
(g) To continue to facilitate and strengthen further its cooperation with the
human rights field office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
(h) To cooperate fully with the International Criminal Tribunal for the
Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of
International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and
Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed
in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994 in
ensuring that all those responsible for the crime of genocide, crimes against
humanity and other violations of article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions of
12 August 1949 and Additional Protocol II thereto, 17 are brought to justice in
accordance with international principles of due process;
(i) To continue to facilitate the creation of the necessary prerequisites for the
deployment, in conditions of security, of the United Nations Organization Mission
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to guarantee the safety and freedom of
movement of its personnel and associated personnel;
5.
Decides:
(a) To continue to examine the situation of human rights in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo and to request the Special Rapporteur to report to the
General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session, incorporating a gender perspective;
(b) To request the Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions and a member of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary
Disappearances to undertake, if appropriate in cooperation with the National
Commission responsible for investigating violations of human rights and breaches
of international humanitarian law in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(ex-Zaire) between 1996 and 1997, a joint mission to investigate all the massacres
perpetrated in the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, particularly
the massacres committed in the province of South Kivu and other atrocities referred
to by the Special Rapporteur in his latest and previous reports on the situation of
human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a view to bringing to
justice those responsible, and to report on this matter to the Commission on Human
Rights at its fifty-eighth session and to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh
session ;
(c) To request the Secretary-General to give the Special Rapporteurs and the
joint mission all necessary assistance to enable them fully to discharge their
mandate;
(d) To request the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
provide the technical skills needed by the joint mission in order to discharge its
mandate;
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