A/RES/74/181
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
27 December 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 76
Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and
experts on mission
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/74/422)]
74/181.
Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts
on mission
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 59/281 of 29 March 2005, in which it endorsed the
recommendation of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations that the
Secretary-General make available to the United Nations membership a comprehensive
report on the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeeping
operations, 1
Recalling also that the Secretary-General, on 24 March 2005, transmitted to the
President of the General Assembly a report of his Adviser concerning sexual
exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeeping personnel, 2
Recalling further its resolution 59/300 of 22 June 2005, in which it endorsed the
recommendation of the Special Committee that a group of legal experts be established
to provide advice on the best way to proceed so as to ensure that the original intent of
the Charter of the United Nations can be achieved, namely, that United Nations staff
and experts on mission would never be effectively exempt from the consequences of
criminal acts committed at their duty station, nor unjustly penalized, without due
process, 3
Underlining the importance of a zero-tolerance policy for misconduct and the
commission of crimes by United Nations officials and experts on mission,
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 19
(A/59/19/Rev.1), part one, chap. III, sect. D, para. 56.
See A/59/710.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 19
(A/59/19/Rev.1), part two, chap. II, sect. N, para. 40 (a).
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