A/RES/73/159 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 11 January 2019 Seventy-third session Agenda item 73 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2018 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/588)] 73/159. Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination The General Assembly, Recalling all of its previous resolutions on the subject, including resolution 72/158 of 19 December 2017, and Human Rights Council resolutions 15/12 of 30 September 2010, 1 15/26 of 1 October 2010, 2 18/4 of 29 September 2011, 3 21/8 of 27 September 2012, 4 24/13 of 26 September 2013, 5 27/10 of 25 September 2014, 6 30/6 of 1 October 2015, 7 33/4 of 29 September 2016, 8 36/3 of 28 September 2017 9 and 39/5 of 27 September 2018, 10 as well as all resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights in this regard, Recalling also all of its relevant resolutions, in which, inter alia, it condemned any State that permitted or tolerated the recruitment, financing, training, assembly, transit or use of mercenaries with the objective of overthrowing the Governments of States Members of the United Nations, especially those of developing countries, or of fighting against national liberation movements, and recalling further the relevant resolutions and international instruments adopted by the General Assembly, the __________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 18-22254 (E) See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1), chap. II. Ibid., chap. I. Ibid., Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.1 and A/66/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II. Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III. Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III. Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1, A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A. Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1), chap. III. Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.1 and A/71/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II. Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. II. Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/73/53/Add.1), chap. III. 150119 *1822254*

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