Humanitarian assistance risks becoming associated with an intervening armed force represented by private military and security guards. ... As it has been pointed out by one academic expert "A multiplicity of indirect international legal instruments coexists with a scarcity of specific ones"7. ... The Working Group, as the only monitoring body responsible for issues related with mercenarism within the UN system, endeavors within its limited possibilities to fill this vacuum in the monitoring, promotion and follow up with the aim to arrive at the universal accession of the Convention....

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