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Right of
peoples to self-determination
Date of
consideration: 7-8
November 2005
Third
Committee report (59th
session):
A/59/502
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Documents:
A/60/111 [F]
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Letter dated 5
July 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the
United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/263 [F]
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Report of the
Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the use of
mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the
exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination
A/60/268 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary-General on the universal realization of the right of
peoples to self-determination
A/60/319 [F]
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Note by the
Secretariat:
report of the
Working Group on the use of
mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the
exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination
A/60/440-S/2005/658
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A/60/440/Corr.1-S/2005/658/Corr.1
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A/60/440/Corr.2-S/2005/658/Corr.2
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Letter
dated 17 October 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Yemen
to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
Summary:
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the
universal realization of the right of all peoples, including
those under colonial, foreign and alien domination, to
self-determination was a fundamental condition for the
effective guarantee and observance of human rights and for the
preservation and promotion of such rights; requested the
Commission on Human Rights to continue to give special
attention to the violation of human rights, especially the
right to self-determination, resulting from foreign military
intervention, aggression or occupation; and requested the
Secretary-General to report on the question to the Assembly at
its sixtieth session (resolution
59/180).
At the same
session, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the use of
mercenaries and their recruitment, financing and training were
causes for grave concern to all States; urged all States to
take the necessary steps and to exercise the utmost vigilance
against the menace posed by the activities of mercenaries;
requested the new Special Rapporteur to circulate to States
and consult with them on the new proposal for a legal
definition of a mercenary drafted by the former Special
Rapporteur and to report her findings to the Commission on
Human Rights and the General Assembly; to pay particular
attention to the impact of the activities of private companies
offering military assistance, consultancy and security
services on the international market; on the exercise of the
right of peoples to self-determination; and to consult States
and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in
the implementation of the resolution and to report, with
specific recommendations, to the General Assembly at its
sixtieth session her findings; and requested the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene a
third meeting of experts on traditional and new forms of
mercenary activities as a means of violating human rights and
impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to
self-determination (resolution
59/178).
The Commission
on Human Rights, at its sixty-first session, decided to end
the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the use of
mercenaries and to establish a working group on the use of
mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding
the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination,
made up of five independent experts, one from each regional
group, for a period of three years; and requested the working
group to continue the work already done by the previous
Special Rapporteurs on the strengthening of the international
legal framework for the prevention and sanction of the
recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries, and
to report annually on the progress made in the fulfilment of
its mandate to the Commission and to the General Assembly
(Commission resolution 2005/2).
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