Abstract
The article identifies and reveals objective political and legal correlations between international peacekeeping activities and international criminal justice, which allows positioning the latter as the final phase of the UN peacekeeping practice. The need to take into acco unt such correlation in domestic peacekeeping is substantiated on the basis of lobbying in the world for the perception of such practice of Russia from the angle of reconciliation of the conflicting parties; geopolitical obstacle to the implementation of any form of genocide; ensuring international peace and security. The need is substantiated to increase the international significance of our country using unconventional foreign policy approaches and technologies in the interests of systematically getting ahead of Russia’s geopolitical competitors in the international political, legal, and peacekeeping sphere.
Highlights
By a letter dated 21 June 1997 to the Secretary-General, the two Prime Ministers of Cambodia requested the assistance of the United Nations and the international community in bringing to justice those persons responsible for the genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the rule of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979 (A/51/930-S/1997/488); the letter was sent by the Secretary-General to the Presidents of the General Assembly and Security Council respectively on 24 June 1997
The letter referred in this respect to resolution 1997/49 of 11 April 1997, by which the Commission on Human Rights had requested “the Secretary-General, through his Special Representative, in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights, to examine any request by Cambodia for assistance in responding to past serious violations of Cambodian and international law as a means of bringing about national reconciliation, strengthening democracy and addressing the issue of individual accountability”
By resolution 52/135 of 12 December 1997, under the agenda item of the “Situation of human rights in Cambodia”, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of its Third Committee, inter alia, took note of resolution 1997/49 of the Commission on Human Rights, and endorsed the comments of the Special Representative for human rights in Cambodia that the most serious human rights violations in Cambodia in recent history have been committed by the Khmer Rouge and that their crimes, including the taking and killing of hostages, had continued to the present, and noted with concern that no Khmer Rouge leader had been brought to account for his crimes
Summary
By resolution 52/135 of 12 December 1997, under the agenda item of the “Situation of human rights in Cambodia”, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of its Third Committee, inter alia, took note of resolution 1997/49 of the Commission on Human Rights, and endorsed the comments of the Special Representative for human rights in Cambodia that the most serious human rights violations in Cambodia in recent history have been committed by the Khmer Rouge and that their crimes, including the taking and killing of hostages, had continued to the present, and noted with concern that no Khmer Rouge leader had been brought to account for his crimes (paragraph 15).
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