A/RES/55/86 9. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the necessary assistance, both professional and financial; 10. Recommends that the Commission on Human Rights renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for a period of three years; 11. Urges all States to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur in the fulfilment of his mandate; 12. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as a matter of priority to be programmed in its immediate activities, to publicize the adverse effects of the activities of mercenaries on the right to selfdetermination and, when requested and where necessary, to render advisory services to States that are affected by the activities of mercenaries; 13. Requests the Secretary-General to invite Governments to make proposals towards a clearer legal definition of mercenaries, and in this regard strongly urges the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene a workshop on the traditional and new forms of activities of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination before the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on Human Rights, so that a report on the outcome of the workshop may be submitted to the Commission at its fifty-seventh session; 14. Requests the Special Rapporteur to report his findings on the use of mercenaries to undermine the right of peoples to self-determination, with specific recommendations, to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session; 15. Decides to consider at its fifty-sixth session the question of the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination under the item entitled “Right of peoples to self-determination”. 81st plenary meeting 4 December 2000 3