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

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 134 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries, published in 1987.

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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	–

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9 subjects

Conference and Meeting Services Consultations Mercenaries Negotiation Observer Status Participants Report Preparation Treaties Work Organization

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9 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries;29 2.

Decides to renew the mandate of the Ad Hoc Committee with a view to completing as soon as possible a draft international convention against the recruitment, use, fi. nancing and training of mercenaries;

Requests the Ad Hoc Committee, in the fulfilment of its mandate, to use the draft articles contained in chapter 111 of its report,29 entitled "Second revised consolidated negotiating basis of a convention against the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries" as a basis for future negotiation on the text of the proposed international convention;

Invites the Ad Hoc Committee to take into account the suggestions and proposals ofMember States submitted to the Secretary-General on the subject and the views and comments ex¡ressed at the fortieth, 30 forty-first31 and forty-second3 sessions of the General Assembly during the debate in the Sixth Committee devoted to the consideration of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee;

Decides that the Ad Hoc Committee shall hold its seventh session from 25 January to 12 February 1988;

A lso decides that the Ad Hoc Committee shall accept the participation of observers of Member States, including participation in the meetings of its drafting and working groups;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide, on a priority basis, the Ad Hoc Committee with any assistance and facilities it may require to hold its seventh session in 1988;

Reaffirms the importance that pre-session consultations among the members of the Ad Hoc Committee and other interested States may have in facilitating the smooth conduct of its work towards the fulfilment of its task, inter alía, as regards the composition of the Bureau and the organization of work;

Invites the Ad Hoc Committee to make every etfort to submit its final report containing a draft international convention against the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries to the General Assembly if possible at its forty-third session;

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

30 !bid .. Fortieth Session. Sixth Committee, 13th to 17th, 44th and 48th meetings.

31 /bid .. Forty-ftrst Session, Sixth Committee, 25th, 26th, 46th and 47th meetings, and corrigendum.

29 Ojficial Records of rhe General Assembly. Forty-second Session.

12 !bid .. Forty-second Session. Sixrh Committee, 12th to 15th and Supplemenr No. 43 (A/42/43).

55th meetings, and corrigendum.

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