text: appeared to diminish the horror the world felt at expressed on that subject at the forty-first session of genocide. Finally, the decision in paragraph 6 to the General Assembly so that a text acceptable to all appoint a special rapporteur was inappropriate be-States might be drawn up. She also endorsed the cause it would interfere with the work of the Ad Hoc statements made by the representative of France Committee on the Drafting of an International concerning rationalization of the work of the Com- Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing mission on Human Rights. and Training of Mercenaries, particularly as the 61. Mr. SCHWANDT (Federal Republic of Germa- Committee had yet to define the term "mercenary". ny) said that his delegation had abstained in the Thus, having opposed those two paragraphs when voting on draft decision I for the same reasons for they had been put to a vote, his delegation had which it had abstained in the vote on resolution abstained in the vote on the draft resolution as a 1986/15 of the Commission on Human Rights. A whole. decision to convene a meeting of the Working Group 56. With regard to draft decision I, his delegation of Governmental Experts on the Right to Develop- had, in meetings of the Second (Social) Committee, ment before the adoption by the General Assembly of questioned the value any meeting of the Working a declaration on that subject was premature, and it Group of Governmental Experts on the Right to also seemed unlikely that the Working Group could Development might have when the General Assem- do any useful work if it were to be convened as early bly had not yet reached a decision on that question. as January 1987. His delegation had been pleased to 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing a United Nations meeting and resolutions related to human rights, specifically the recruitment and use of mercenaries. The language used is formal and diplomatic, indicating a discussion among government representatives. The focus is on the work of committees and working groups, which suggests that the topic is international governance and human rights.