Use of mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Condemns the continued recruitment, financing, training, assembly, transit and use of mercenaries, as well as all other forms of support to mercenaries, for the purpose of destabilizing and overthrowing the Governments of African States and other developing States and fighting against the national liberation movements of peoples struggling for the exercise of their right to self-determination; urges all States to take the necessary steps and to exercise the utmost vigilance against the menace posed by the activities of mercenaires and to ensure that their territory and other territories under their control as well as their nationals, are not used for the recruitment, assembly, financing, training and transit of mercenaries or for the planning of activities designed to destabilize or overthrow the Government of any State and to fight the national liberation movements; calls upon all States to extend humanitarian assistance to victims of situations resulting from the use of mercenaries, as well as from colonial or alien domination or foreign occupation; calls upon all States that have not yet done so to consider taking early action to sign or ratify the International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries.

Adopted 108-14-39, 85th meeting

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Adopted at the 85th plenary meeting, 20 Dec. 1993.