For the purposes of this Convention:

(a)

"United Nations staff" means:

(i)

Persons engaged or deployed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as members of the military, police or civilian elements of a United Nations operation;

(ii)

Other officials and experts on mission of the United Nations or its specialized agencies or of the International Atomic Energy Agency who are present in an official capacity in the area where a United Nations operation Is conducted;

(b)

"Associated Personnel" means:

(i)

Persons affected by a government or intergovernmental organization with the agreement of the competent organ of the United Nations;

(ii)

Persons engaged by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, by a specialized agency or by the International Atomic Energy Agency; and

(iii)

Persons deployed by an organization or a non-governmental humanitarian institution pursuant to an agreement with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, a specialized agency or the International Agency for Atomic energy,

To carry out activities in support of the fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations operation;

(c)

"United Nations Operation" means an operation established by the competent organ of the United Nations in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and conducted under the authority and control of the United Nations:

(i)

Where the operation is intended to maintain or restore international peace and security, or

(ii)

When the Security Council or the General Assembly has declared for the purposes of this Convention that there is an exceptional risk to the safety of the personnel involved in the operation;

(d)

"Host State" means a State in whose territory a United Nations operation is carried out;

(e)

"Transit State" means a State, other than the host State, on whose territory United Nations personnel or associated personnel or their equipment are in transit or are temporarily present in the context of an operation of the United Nations United.

(1) This Convention shall apply to United Nations and associated personnel and to United Nations operations, in accordance with the definitions given in Art. 1.

2. This Convention shall not apply to a United Nations operation authorized by the Security Council as a coercive action under the Chap. VII of the Charter of the United Nations in which personnel are engaged as combatants against organized armed forces and to which the law of international armed conflicts applies.

1. The military and police elements of a United Nations operation and their vehicles, ships and aircraft bear a distinctive mark of identification. The remainder of the personnel and other vehicles, ships and aircraft used in the operation of the United Nations shall be marked appropriately unless otherwise decided by the Secretary-General of the United Nations United Nations.

2. Each member of the staff of the United Nations and associated personnel shall carry out appropriate identification documents.

The host State and the Organization shall conclude as soon as possible an agreement on the status of the operation and of all personnel involved in the operation, including provisions on the privileges and immunities of military and police elements Of the operation.

The transit State shall facilitate the free transit of United Nations and associated personnel and their equipment to and from the host State.

(1) Without prejudice to the privileges and immunities they may enjoy or the requirements of their functions, United Nations personnel and associated personnel:

(a)

Comply with the laws and regulations of the host State and the transit State; and

(b)

Refrain from any action or activity incompatible with the impartiality and international character of their functions.

2. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall take all appropriate measures to ensure compliance with these obligations.

1. United Nations personnel and associated personnel, equipment and premises shall not be subject to any interference or action that prevents them from carrying out their mandate.

(2) States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure the safety of United Nations and associated personnel. States Parties shall, inter alia, take all appropriate measures to protect United Nations personnel and associated personnel who are deployed in their territories for offences referred to in s. 9.

3. Each State Party shall cooperate with the United Nations and other States Parties, as appropriate, with a view to the implementation of this Convention, in particular in all cases where the host State is not itself able to take the Required measures.

Unless otherwise provided for in any agreement on the status of forces, if United Nations personnel or associated personnel are captured or detained in the course of carrying out their duties and if their identity has been established, they shall Shall not be subjected to interrogation and shall be promptly released and returned to the United Nations or other appropriate authority. In the meantime, they must be treated in accordance with the universally accepted standards of human rights and the principles and spirit of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

1. Intentional fact:

(a)

To commit murder or abduction or to carry any other offence against the person or liberty of a member of the United Nations or associated personnel;

(b)

To attack the official premises, the private home or the means of transport of a member of the United Nations or associated personnel with an attack accompanied by violence that would endanger the person or his or her freedom;

(c)

Threaten to commit such an infringement in order to compel a natural or legal person to perform any act or to refrain from doing so;

(d)

Attempt to carry such an infringement; and

(e)

To participate as an accomplice in such an attack or an attempt to commit such an infringement, or to organize or order the commission,

Is considered by each State party to be an offence under its own domestic law.

(2) Each State Party shall make the offences referred to in par. 1 subject to appropriate penalties taking into account the seriousness of such offences.

(1) Each State Party shall take the necessary measures to establish its jurisdiction for the purpose of knowing the offences referred to in s. 9 in the following cases:

(a)

Where the offence is committed in the territory of that State or on board a ship or aircraft registered in that State;

(b)

Where the alleged offender has the nationality of that State.

2. A State Party may also establish its jurisdiction for the purpose of knowing any of these offences:

(a)

When committed by a stateless person who has his habitual residence in that State; or

(b)

Where the victim is a national of that State; or

(c)

When committed in order to compel the State to perform any act or to refrain from doing so.

(3) Any State Party which has established its jurisdiction for the cases referred to in s. 2 shall notify the Secretary-General of the United Nations. If that State Party subsequently renounces this competence, it shall notify it to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

4. Each State Party shall take the necessary measures to establish its jurisdiction for the purpose of knowing the offences referred to in s. 9 in cases where the alleged offender is in his territory and where he does not extradite him in accordance with art. 15 to one of the States which have established their competence in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2.

5. This Convention does not exclude criminal jurisdiction exercised under domestic law.

States Parties shall cooperate in the prevention of offences referred to in Art. 9, including:

(a)

Taking all possible measures to prevent the preparation in their respective territories of such offences intended to be committed within or outside their territories; and

(b)

By exchanging information in accordance with their national legislation and by coordinating administrative and other measures, where appropriate, to prevent the commission of such offences.

1. Under the conditions set out in its domestic legislation, if it has reason to believe that the alleged perpetrator of an offence referred to in s. 9 has fled from its territory, the State Party in whose territory the offence was committed communicates to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and, directly or through the latter, to the State or States concerned, All relevant facts relating to the offence and any information available to it in respect of the identity of the alleged offender.

2. Where an offence under s. 9 has been committed, any State Party in possession of information concerning the victim and the circumstances of the offence shall endeavour, under the conditions laid down in its domestic law, to communicate them fully and promptly to the Secretary General of the United Nations and the State or States concerned.

1. If it considers that the circumstances justify it, the State Party on whose territory the alleged offender is located shall take the necessary measures in accordance with its domestic law to ensure that the person concerned is present for the purpose Prosecution or extradition.

2. Measures taken pursuant to s. 1 shall be notified, in accordance with the domestic legislation and without delay, to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and either directly or through the latter:

(a)

To the State in whose territory the offence was committed;

(b)

To the State or States of which the alleged offender is a national or, if stateless, to the State in whose territory he has his habitual residence;

(c)

The State or States of which the victim is a national; and

(d)

To all other interested States.

The State Party in whose territory the alleged offender is found, if it does not extradite the alleged offender, submits the case, without any exception and without undue delay, to its competent authorities for the exercise of the criminal action in accordance with a Procedure in accordance with its legislation. These authorities shall take their decision under the same conditions as for any infringement of a common law of a serious nature in accordance with the law of that State.

1. If the offences referred to in s. 9 are not included as extraditable cases in an extradition treaty concluded between the States Parties, they shall be deemed to be included in this title. States Parties undertake to include such offences as extraditable offences in any extradition treaty to be concluded between them.

(2) If a State Party which makes extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty receives a request for extradition by another State Party to which it is not bound by an extradition treaty, it shall have the right to consider this Convention as Constituting the legal basis for extradition in respect of such offences. Extradition shall be subject to the conditions laid down in the law of the requested State.

States Parties which do not make extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty shall recognise such offences as extraditable offences between them in accordance with the conditions laid down by the law of the requested State.

4. Between States Parties, each of these offences shall be considered for the purpose of extradition as having been committed, both at the place of its commission and in the territory of the States Parties which have established their jurisdiction in accordance with par. 1 or 2 of s. 10.

1. States Parties shall afford each other the widest measure of mutual assistance in connection with any criminal prosecution against offences referred to in s. 9, including with respect to the disclosure of all the evidence before them that are necessary for the prosecution. The law of the requested State shall apply in all cases.

2. The provisions of s. 1 does not affect the mutual assistance obligations arising from any other treaty.

1. Any person who is the subject of an investigation or prosecution as a result of any of the offences described in s. 9 must receive fair treatment and trial and full protection of rights at all stages of the investigation or prosecution.

2. The alleged offender is entitled to:

(a)

To communicate without delay with the appropriate representative closest to the State or States of which he is a national or who is otherwise entitled to protect his rights or, if he is stateless, of the State which, at the request of the person concerned, is prepared to Protect its rights; and

(b)

To receive the visit of a representative of that State or of those States.

The State Party in which the alleged perpetrator of an offence is prosecuted shall communicate the final result to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit the information to the other States Parties.

States Parties undertake to disseminate this Convention as widely as possible, including the inclusion of the study, as well as the relevant provisions of international humanitarian law, in their military training programmes.

Nothing in this Convention shall affect:

(a)

The applicability of international humanitarian law and universally recognized human rights standards in international instruments with regard to the protection of United Nations operations, as well as the Staff of the United Nations and associated personnel, or the duty of such personnel to comply with the said right and standards;

(b)

The rights and obligations of States, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, with regard to consent to the entry of persons into their territory;

(c)

The obligation of United Nations and associated personnel to behave in a manner consistent with the mandate of a United Nations operation;

(d)

The right of States that voluntarily provide personnel for a United Nations operation to withdraw such personnel by terminating their participation in the operation; or

(e)

The right to appropriate compensation in the event of death, disability, accident or illness of persons voluntarily assigned by a State to a United Nations operation attributable to the performance of peacekeeping duties.

Nothing in this Convention shall be construed as restricting the right of self-defence.

1. Any dispute between two or more States Parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention which is not settled by negotiation shall be submitted to arbitration at the request of one of the Parties. If, within six months after the date of the request for arbitration, the parties are unable to agree on the organization of the arbitration, one of them may refer the dispute to the International Court of Justice by filing a Request in accordance with the Statute of the Court.

(2) Any State Party may, at the time of signing this Convention, ratify, accept, approve or accede to it, declare that it does not consider itself bound by all or part of the provisions of s. 1. The other States Parties shall not be bound by s. 1 or the relevant part of that paragraph towards a State Party which has made such a reservation.

(3) Any State Party which has made a reservation in accordance with the provisions of par. 2 may withdraw this reservation at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

At the request of one or more States Parties, and with the approval of the majority of States Parties, the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall convene a meeting of States Parties to consider the implementation of the Convention And the problems encountered in its application.

This Convention shall be open for signature by all States until 31 December 1995 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

This Convention shall be subject to ratification, acceptance or approval. Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

This Convention shall be open for accession by all States. Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

This Convention shall enter into force 30 days after the date of deposit with the Secretary-General of the United Nations of 22 instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

2. For any State ratifying, accepting or approving the Convention or acceding thereto after the deposit of 22 ^E Instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, the Convention shall enter into force on 30 ^E The date of the deposit by the said State of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.

1. Any State Party may denounce this Convention by written notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

(2) Denunciation shall take effect one year after the date on which the Secretary-General of the United Nations receives such notification.

The original of this Convention, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall send certified copies thereof to the All states.

Done at New York, 9 December 1994.

(Suivent signatures)