Human Rights Council Resolution 7/21. Mandate of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination The Human Rights Council, Recalling all of the previous resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights on the subject, including Assembly resolution 62/145 of 18 December 2007 and Commission resolution 2005/2 of 7 April 2005, Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Recalling Council resolutions 5/1 entitled “Institution-building of the United Nations Human Rights Council” and 5/2 entitled “Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council” of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate-holder shall discharge his/her duties in accordance with these resolutions and the annexes thereto, 1. Acknowledges with appreciation the work and contributions made by the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, and takes note with appreciation of its latest report (A/HRC/7/7); 2. Decides to extend the mandate of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination for a period of three years: (a) To elaborate and present concrete proposals on possible complementary and new standards aimed at filling existing gaps, as well as general guidelines or basic principles