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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/147
8 March 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 110 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/53/625/Add.2)]
53/147. Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 which guarantees the right to life, liberty and
security of person, and the relevant provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,2
Recalling also its resolutions 47/136 of 18 December 1992 and 51/92 of 12 December 1996, as well as
Commission on Human Rights resolution 1992/72 of 5 March 1992,3 and taking note of Commission
resolution 1998/68 of 21 April 1998,4
Recalling further Economic and Social Council resolution 1984/50 of 25 May 1984 and the safeguards
guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty annexed thereto and Council resolution
1989/64 of 24 May 1989 on their implementation, as well as the Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice
for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 40/34 of 29
November 1985,
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
2
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1992, Supplement No. 2 (E/1992/22), chap. II, sect.
A.
4
Ibid., 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II, sect. A.
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