United Nations
A/RES/62/63
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2008
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 80
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2007
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/62/448)]
62/63. Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and
experts on mission
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 59/281 of 29 March 2005, in which it endorsed the
recommendation in paragraph 56 of the report of the Special Committee on
Peacekeeping Operations 1 that the Secretary-General make available to the United
Nations membership a comprehensive report on the issue of sexual exploitation and
abuse in United Nations peacekeeping operations,
Noting that the Secretary-General, on 24 March 2005, transmitted to the
President of the General Assembly a report of his Adviser concerning sexual
exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeeping personnel, 2
Recalling its resolution 59/300 of 22 June 2005 endorsing the recommendation
of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations 3 that a group of legal experts
be established to provide advice on the best way to proceed so as to ensure that the
original intent of the Charter of the United Nations can be achieved, namely that
United Nations staff and experts on mission would never be effectively exempt from
the consequences of criminal acts committed at their duty station, nor unjustly
penalized without due process,
Reaffirming the need to promote and ensure respect for the principles and rules
of international law,
Reaffirming also that the present resolution is without prejudice to the
privileges and immunities of United Nations officials and experts on mission and
the United Nations under international law,
Reaffirming further the obligation of United Nations officials and experts on
mission to respect the national laws of the host State, as well as the right of the host
State to exercise, where applicable, its criminal jurisdiction, in accordance with the
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 19 (A/59/19/Rev.1),
part one, chap. III, sect. D.
2
See A/59/710.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 19 (A/59/19/Rev.1),
part two, chap. II, sect. N.
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