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(e) To allow representatives of the competent international organization concerned to attend hearings
involving United Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a
United Nations operation, provided that such attendance is consistent with domestic law;
4.
Requests the Secretary-General:
(a) To take the necessary measures to ensure full respect for the human rights, privileges and
immunities of United Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the mandate of
a United Nations operation and to ensure, when those human rights, privileges and immunities are
violated, that such personnel are restored to their organization and, where appropriate, to seek redress and
compensation for the damage caused to them;
(b) To consider ways and means, until the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and
Associated Personnel has entered into force, to strengthen the protection of United Nations and other
personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations operation, notably by
seeking the inclusion, in negotiations of headquarters and other mission agreements concerning United
Nations and associated personnel, of the applicable conditions contained in the Convention on the
Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations,3 the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the
Specialized Agencies4 and the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel;
(c) To take the necessary measures, falling within his responsibilities, to ensure that security matters
are an integrated part of the planning for an operation and that such precautions extend to all United
Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations
operation;
(d) To take the necessary measures to ensure that United Nations and other personnel carrying out
activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations operation are properly informed and suitably
trained so as to enhance their security and effectiveness in accomplishing their functions;
(e) To take the necessary measures to ensure that United Nations and other personnel carrying out
activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations operation are properly informed about the scope
of that mandate and the standards, including those contained in relevant domestic and international law,
they are required to meet;
(f) To make available to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-fourth session the
independent study that was requested at its fifty-third session on the safety and security problems faced
by United Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a United
Nations operation;
(g) To submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session a report on the situation of United
Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations
operation who are imprisoned, missing or held in a country against their will, on cases that have been
successfully settled and on the implementation of the measures referred to in the present resolution.
70th plenary meeting
12 December 1997