Condemns the increased 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 southern Africa and Central America and of other developing States; strongly condemns the racist régime of South Africa for its increasing use of groups of armed mercenaries against national liberation movements and for the destabilization of the Governments of southern African States; urges all States to take the necessary measures under their respective domestic laws to prohibit the recruitment, financing, training and transit of mercenaries on their territory; considers it inadmissible to use channels of humanitarian and other assistance to finance, train and arm mercenaries; welcomes the provisions of the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1988/7 aimed at giving the Special Rapporteur on the question of the use of mercenaries the full opportunity to carry out his mandate most effectively.

Adopted 125-10-21, 75th meeting

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Adopted at the 75th plenary meeting, 8 Dec. 1988.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 43rd session, Volume 1, 20 September-22 December 1988. - A/43/49. - 1989. - p. 184-185. - (GAOR, 43rd sess., Suppl. no. 49).