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18. Again requests the Secretary-General to continue to use his best
endeavours in cases where the minimum standards of legal safeguards provided for
in articles 6, 9, 14 and 15 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
appear not to have been respected;
19. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with
adequate human, financial and material resources to enable him to carry out his
mandate effectively, including through country visits;
20. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue, in close collaboration
with the High Commissioner, in conformity with the mandate of the High
Commissioner 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;
21. Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fourth and sixty-fifth sessions a report on the situation worldwide in regard to
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and his recommendations for more
effective action to combat this phenomenon;
22.
session.
Decides to continue its consideration of the question at its sixty-fifth
70th plenary meeting
18 December 2008
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