Final provisions
- Intergovernmental organizations shall declare, in their instruments of formal confirmation or accession, the extent of their competence with respect to matters governed by the present Convention. - References to "States Parties" in the present Convention shall apply to such organizations within the limits of their competence - Inter-governmental organizations, in matters within their competence, may exercise their right to vote in the Meeting of States Parties. (Art.42)
[1] http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/ [2] According to the study, private contractors for the CIA have engaged in activities such as intelligence gathering and analysis of terrorist networks and local factions in war zones, espionage, protection of CIA officials, kidnapping of suspected extremists, interrogation of detainees held at secret prisons, training of U.S. intelligence officers and killing of enemy fighters.
[3] Washington Post, Top Secret America, National Security Inc., 20 July 2010. [4] Washington Post, ‘CIA hires Xe, formerly Blackwater, to guard facilities in Afghanistan, elsewhere’, 24 June 2010. [5] http://www.g4s.com/en/ [6] OpenDemocracy,‘ Privatizing Africa’s everyday security’, Rita Abrahamsen, Michael C. Williams, 1 July 2010. [7] http://priv-war.eu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/nr-19-09-col.pdf [8] BBC news, ‘Why Ugandans want to work in Iraq’, 6 November 2009. [9] Report of the Working group on the use of mercenaries, mission to Afghanistan, A/HRC/15/25/add.2, paragraph 14, of 14 June 2010. [10] European Journal of International Law, ‘ Private Military Contractors and International Law: an introduction’, Francesco Francioni, Vol. 19, no.5. 2008.
[11] The U.S. Government has appealed a decision of 31 December 2009 of Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of the United States Federal District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss the indictment against five Blackwater guards stating that evidence against them was inadmissible under the United States Constitution. The case is pending before the Court of Appeals. [12] See Report of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries on their mission to the United States of America - A/HRC/15/25/Add. 3 of 15 June 2010. [13] Case 8:08-cv-01696-PJM, Document 103, Filed 07/29/10. [14] European Court of Human Rights, Case of Klein v. Russia, application n.24268/08, 1 April 2010. [15] E. Prince, founder of Xe/Blackwater indicated that one of the main objectives of the security industry would be to obtain a substantial piece of the current United Nations peacekeeping budget estimated at US$ 6-10 billion per year, in Robert Y. Pelton, “Licensed to Kill”, Crown Publishers, New York, 2006.
[16] The Inter-Agency Security Management Network (IASMN) brings together representatives of all partners in the UN security management network including UN agencies, funds and programs to coordinate security practices and policies across the UN system. The IASMN is chaired by the Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security and meet usually twice a year to review all existing and proposed policies, procedures and practices of the United Nations security management system and report and make recommendations on these to the High-Level Committee on Management. [17] See A/HRC/7/7/Add.5 of 5 March 2008 [18] See A/HRC/10/14/Add.3 of 26 February 2009 [19] Reports on each of these last three consultations are available as addenda to the A/HRC/15/25 report. [20] The consultation was attended by representatives of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jordan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Qatar, Samoa, Thailand, Viet Nam and Yemen; as well as by the observer of Palestine. See report A/HRC/15/25/Add.4 of 1 April 2010 [21] The consultation was attended by representatives of Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe and by representatives from the African Union Commission. See report A/HRC/15/25/Add.5. [22] The consultation was attended by representatives from Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and representatives from the European Union. See A/HRC/15/25/Add.6. [23] A/HRC/15/25 of 2 July 2010
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