Requests the Secretary-General, through his Special Representative for human rights in Cambodia, in collaboration with the office in Cambodia of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to assist the Government of Cambodia in ensuring the protection of the human rights of all people in Cambodia; requests the Government of Cambodia and the office in Cambodia of the High Commissioner to exchange the memorandum of understanding for the extension of the mandate of the office after March 2000; urges the Government of Cambodia to continue to take the necessary measures to develop an independent, impartial and effective judicial system; reaffirms that the most serious human rights violations in Cambodia in recent history have been committed by the Khmer Rouge, welcomes the final collapse of the Khmer Rouge, which has paved the way for the restoration of peace, stability and national reconciliation in Cambodia and the investigation and prosecution of the leaders of the Khmer Rouge; urges an end to racial violence against and vilification of ethnic minorities, including the ethnic Vietnamese, and also urges the Government of Cambodia to take all steps to prevent such violence; expresses grave concern at the devastating consequences and destabilizing effects of the use of anti-personnel landmines on Cambodian society and about the large number of small arms in society; requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its 56th session on the role and achievements of the Office of the High Commissioner in assisting the Government and people of Cambodia.

Adopted without vote, 81st plenary meeting

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