A/HRC/RES/15/12
18.
Requests the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner to provide the
Working Group with all the assistance and support necessary for the fulfilment of its
mandate, both professional and financial, including through the promotion of cooperation
between the Working Group and other components of the United Nations system that deal
with countering mercenary-related activities, in order to meet the demands of its current
and future activities;
19.
Requests the Working Group to consult States, intergovernmental
organizations, non-governmental organizations and other relevant actors of civil society in
the implementation of the present resolution and to report its findings on the use of
mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of
peoples to self-determination to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session and to the
Council at its eighteenth session;
20.
Decides to continue its consideration of this matter under the same agenda
item at its eighteenth session.
31st meeting
30 September 2010
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 31 to 13, with 2 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Angola, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon,
Chile, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Ecuador, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Jordan,
Kyrgyzstan, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Thailand,
Uganda, Uruguay, Zambia
Against:
Belgium, France, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Republic of Korea,
Republic of Moldova, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America
Abstaining:
Maldives, Switzerland].
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