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constitutional regime, and the formation of a restructured and integrated national
army; and also the formation of an integrated and adequately resourced national
police force;
(b) To strengthen the transitional institutions, in particular to set up
effectively the Independent Electoral Commission, the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission and the Human Rights Monitoring Centre, and to re-establish stability
and the rule of law over the entire territory of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, thereby returning peace and progress to its people;
(c) To comply fully with its obligations under international human rights
instruments and, accordingly, to continue to cooperate with United Nations
mechanisms for the protection of human rights and further strengthen its
cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
(d) To put an end to impunity and to ensure, as it is duty-bound to do, that
those responsible for human rights violations and grave breaches of international
humanitarian law are brought to justice in accordance with due process, and to carry
out urgently a comprehensive reform of the judicial system;
(e) To put an end to the use of the death penalty in a manner contrary to
obligations assumed under the relevant provisions of the International Covenant
Civil and Political Rights 8 and other human rights instruments, while recalling
commitment to progressively abolish the death penalty and not to impose it
juvenile offenders;
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(f) To continue to cooperate with the International Criminal Court and with
the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda;
(g) To prevent the use of the media to incite hatred or tensions among
communities, while respecting freedom of expression and of the press;
(h) To continue its programme to demobilize, disarm and reintegrate former
combatants, taking into account the special needs of women and children, including
girls, associated with those combatants;
(i) To put an end to the illegal exploitation of the natural resources of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, in view of the link between that exploitation and
the continuation of the conflict;
Encourages the international community to continue to support the
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transition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its institutions and, in
particular, to provide assistance in the reform of national judicial institutions;
Decides to continue to examine the situation of human rights in the
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Democratic Republic of the Congo, and requests the independent expert on the
situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to report to the
General Assembly at its sixtieth session.
74th plenary meeting
20 December 2004
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