ABSTRACT
At its forty-third session from February 2 to March 13, 1987, the Commission approved 61 resolutions and 11 decisions. In addition to 43 member states, 76 observer governments and 98 Nongovernmental organizations attended. At the 1987 session Congo introduced a draft resolution which noted the violations of self-determination caused by mercenaries particularly in Southern Africa, but which proposed a global mandate for a new rapporteur. At the General Assembly session in fall 1986, the Secretariat had translated and distributed only the abridged introductory and concluding sections of reports by the Special Rapporteurs, purportedly for economic reasons. After sharp criticism, the Secretariat reissued them in all working languages with the complete text of reported violations in each country. With Economic and Social Council approval the Commission postponed election of new Sub-Commission members to 1988 so that the experts forced by the financial emergency to miss the regularly scheduled meeting in 1986 could complete their terms at the 39th Session in 1987.
