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15. Expresses its appreciation to those Governments that have invited the
Special Rapporteur to visit their countries, asks them to examine carefully the
recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur and invites them to report to the
Special Rapporteur on the actions taken on those recommendations, and requests
other Governments to cooperate in a similar way;
16. Encourages Governments, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations to organize training programmes and to support projects
with a view to training or educating military forces, law enforcement officers and
government officials, as well as members of United Nations peacekeeping or
observer missions, in human rights and humanitarian law issues connected with their
work, and appeals to the international community to support endeavours to that end;
17. Urges the Special Rapporteur to continue to bring to the attention of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights such situations of
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions as are of particularly serious concern
to her or where early action might prevent further deterioration;
18. Welcomes the cooperation established between the Special Rapporteur
and other United Nations mechanisms and procedures relating to human rights, as
well as with medical and forensic experts, and encourages the Special Rapporteur to
continue efforts in that regard;
19. Calls upon the Governments of all States in which the death penalty has
not been abolished to comply with their obligations under relevant provisions of
international human rights instruments, keeping in mind the safeguards and
guarantees referred to in Economic and Social Council resolutions 1984/50 and
1989/64;
20. Again requests the Secretary-General to continue to use his best
endeavours in cases where the minimum standard of legal safeguards provided for in
articles 6, 9, 14 and 15 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
appears not to have been respected;
21. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with an
adequate and stable level of human, financial and material resources to enable her to
carry out her mandate effectively, including through country visits;
22. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue, in close collaboration
with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in conformity with
the High Commissioner’s mandate established by the General Assembly in its
resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, to ensure that personnel specialized in
human rights and humanitarian law issues form part of United Nations missions,
where appropriate, in order to deal with serious violations of human rights, such as
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions;
23. Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit an interim report to the
General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session on the situation worldwide in regard to
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and her recommendations for more
effective action to combat that phenomenon.
81st plenary meeting
4 December 2000
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