A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/111 5 March 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 110 (c) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/619/Add.3 and Corr.1)] 51/111. Situation of human rights in Kosovo The General Assembly, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the International Covenants on Human Rights,2 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,3 the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide4 and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,5 Taking note with concern of the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, which describe the continuing grave human rights situation in Kosovo, including in particular police brutality, killings resulting from such violence, arbitrary searches and arrests, torture and illtreatment of detainees, the deliberate maltreatment, persecution and imprisonment of political and human rights activists, the mass dismissals of civil servants and discrimination against pupils and teachers, acts which are mainly perpetrated against ethnic Albanians, 1 Resolution 217 A (III). 2 Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 3 Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex. 4 Resolution 260 A (III). 5 Resolution 39/46, annex. 97-77119 /...