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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;
21.
Requests the Working Group to consult States, intergovernmental and nongovernmental 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 selfdetermination to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session and to the Human Rights
Council at its twenty-first session;
22.
Decides to continue its consideration of this matter under the same agenda
item at its twenty-first session.
35th meeting
29 September 2011
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 31 to 11, with 4 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chile,
China, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Ecuador, Guatemala, India,
Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Peru,
Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Thailand,
Uganda, Uruguay
Against:
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland,
Republic of Moldova, Romania, Spain, United States of America
Abstaining:
Maldives, Mauritania, Mexico, Switzerland]
18/5
Human rights and international solidarity
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights
and the Human Rights Council on the issue of human rights and international solidarity,
including Commission resolution 2005/55 of 20 April 2005, Council resolutions 6/3 of 27
September 2007, 7/5 of 27 March 2008, 9/2 of 24 September 2008, 12/9 of 1 October 2009,
15/13 of 30 September 2010 and 17/6 of 16 June 2011, and Council decision 16/118 of 25
March 2011, and taking note of the reports submitted by the independent expert on human
rights and international solidarity, in particular the latest report,10
Underlining the fact that the processes of promoting and protecting human rights
should be conducted in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations and international law,
Recalling that, at the World Conference on Human Rights, held in June 1993, States
pledged to cooperate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to
development, and stressed that the international community should promote effective
10
GE.12-17756
A/HRC/15/32.
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