A/RES/74/138
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 69
Right of peoples to self-determination
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/398)]
74/138.
Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and
impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination
The General Assembly,
Recalling all of its previous resolutions on the subject, including resolution
73/159 of 17 December 2018, and Human Rights Council resolutions on the subject,
including resolution 42/9 of 26 September 2019, 1 as well as all resolutions adopted
by the Commission on Human Rights in this regard,
Recalling also all of its relevant resolutions, in which, inter alia, it condemned
any State that permitted or tolerated the recruitment, financing, training, assembly,
transit or use of mercenaries with the objective of overthrowing the Governments of
States Members of the United Nations, especially those of developing countries, or
of fighting against national liberation movements, and recalling further the relevant
resolutions and international instruments adopted by the General Assembly, the
Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and the Organization of African
Unity, inter alia, the Organization of African Unity Convention for the elimination of
mercenarism in Africa, 2 as well as by the African Union,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations concerning the strict observance of the prin ciples of sovereign equality,
political independence, the territorial integrity of States, the self -determination of
peoples, the non-use of force or of the threat of use of force in international relations
and non-interference in affairs within the domestic jurisdiction of States,
Reaffirming also that, by virtue of the principle of self-determination, all
peoples have the right freely to determine their political status and to pursue their
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/74/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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