Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 115 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1981–1989

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/43/168

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1989	A/RES/43/168	Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries	—	—
1987	A/RES/42/155	Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries	771	—
1986	A/RES/41/80	Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries	—	—
1981	A/RES/36/76	Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries	1,936	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Mercenaries Treaties

What’s in this document?

21 operative paragraphs

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Urges States to observe and to implement the principles and rules of international law governing diplomatic and consular relations and, in particular, to take all necessary measures in conformity with their international obligations to ensure effectively the protection, security and safety of all diplomatic and consular missions and representatives officially present in territory under their jurisdiction, including practicable measures to prohibit in their territories illegal activities of persons, groups and organizations that encourage, instigate, organize or engage in the perpetration of acts against the security and safety of such missions and representatives;

Recommends that States co-operate closely, inter alia, through contacts between the diplomatic and consular mission and the receiving State, with regard to practical measures designed to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives;

Calls anew upon States that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the instruments relevant to the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, inter a/ia, the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, 15 the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963, 16 and the respective optional protocols thereto, as well as the Convention of 1973 on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents; 17 6.

Calls upon States, in cases where a dispute arises in connection with a violatim, of the principles and rules of international law concerning the inviolability of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, to make use of the means for peaceful settlement of disputes, including the good offices of the Secretary-General;

Invites all States to report to the Secretary-General serious violations of the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, invites the State in which the violation took place and, where applicable, the State where the alleged offender is present to report also on measures taken to bring the offender to justice and eventually to communicate, in accordance with its laws, the final outcome of the proceedings against the offender, and further invites the State in which the violation took place to report also on the measures aimed at preventing a repetition of such violations;

Requests the Secretary-General to circulate to all States upon receipt the reports received by him pursuant to paragraph 7 above, unless requested otherwise by the reporting State;

Requests the Secretary-General to invite States to inform him of their views with respect to any measures needed to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives;

Requests the Secretary-General, when a serious violation has been reported to him pursuant to paragraph 7 above, to draw the attention, when appropriate, of the State where the violation occurred and, when applicable, of the State where the alleged offender is present to the reporting procedures established in resolution 35/168 and reaffirmed in paragraph 7 above;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session a report on the state of ratification of, and accessions to, the instruments referred to in paragraph 5 above, as well as the reports received and views expressed pursuant to paragraphs 7 and 9 above, and invites him to submit any views he may wish to express on these matters;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-seventh session the item entitled "Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives: report of the Secretary-General".

'36/76.

Report of the Ad Hoe Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries

Takes note of the report of the Ad Hoe Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries;

Decides that the Ad Hoe Committee shall continue its work with the goal of drafting at the earliest possible

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date an international convention against the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries;

Requests the Ad Hoe Committee, in the fulfilment of its mandate, to consider the suggestions and proposals of Member States, bearing in mind the views and comments submitted to the Secretary-General2° and those expressed at the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly during the debate in the Sixth Committee devoted to the consideration of the report of the Ad Hoe Committee; 21 4.

Requests the Secretary-General to make available to the Ad Hoe Committee at its next session the texts of the conventions drafted by international and regional organizations on mercenaries, as well as any other relevant documentation;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Ad Hoe Committee with any assistance and facilities it may require for the performance of its work;

Requests the Ad Hoe Committee to submit its report to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-seventh session the item entitled "Report of the Ad Hoe Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against the Recruitment. Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries" .

36/106. Draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of Mankind

Invites the International Law Commission to resume its work with a view to elaborating the draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of Mankind and to examine it with the required priority in order to review it,

taking duly into account the results achieved by the process of the progressive development of international law;

Requests the International Law Commission to consider at its thirty-fourth session the question of the draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of Mankind in the context of its five-year programme and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session on the priority it deems advisable to accord to the draft Code, and the possibility of presenting a preliminary report to the Assembly at its thirty-eighth session bearing, inter alia, on the scope and the structure of the draft Code;

Requests the Secretary-General to reiterate his invitation to Member States and relevant international intergovernmental organizations to present or update their comments and observations on the draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of Mankind, and to submit a report to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the International Law Commission all the necessary documentation, comments and observations presented by Member States and relevant international intergovernmental organizations on the item entitled "Draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of Mankind";

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-seventh session the item entitled "Draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of Mankind" and to accord it priority and the fullest possible consideration.

36/107. Progressive development of the principles and norms of international law relating to the new international economic order

"United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 500, No. 7310, p. 95.

1• Resolution 2625 (XXV), annex. 16 Ibid., vol. 596, No. 8638, p. 261.

19 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-sixth Session. Sup- 17 Resolution 3166 (XXVIII), annex.

plement No. 43 (A/36/43).

20 See A/35/366 and Add.1-3 and A/361438.

21 Official Records of the General As.,emblv, Thirrv-sixrh Session, Sixth Committee, 16th-23rd and 57th meetings; and ibid., Sixth Committee, Sessional Fascicle, corrigendum.

22 Ibid., Ninth Session, Supplement No. 9 (A/2693). para. 54.

23 A/36/416.

'" See sect. II, resolution 36/39.

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