86 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARMED CONFLICT obligations. Principle 24 of the Updated Set of principles for the protection and promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity states that “[e]ven when intended to establish conditions conducive to a peace agreement or to foster national reconciliation, amnesty and other measures of clemency shall be kept within the following bounds: (a) [t]he perpetrators of serious crimes under international law may not benefit from such measures until such time as the State has met the obligations to which principle 19 refers or the perpetrators have been prosecuted before a court with jurisdiction […] outside the State in question.” In his report on the establishment of a Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Secretary-General stated that “[w]hile recognizing that amnesty is an accepted legal concept and a gesture of peace and reconciliation at the end of a civil war or an internal armed conflict, the United Nations has consistently maintained the position that amnesty cannot be granted in respect of international crimes, such as genocide, crimes against humanity or other serious violations of international humanitarian law.”127 More recently, the 2006 revised and updated version of the Guidelines for United Nations Representatives on certain aspects of negotiations for conflict resolution state that the United Nations cannot condone amnesties regarding war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide or gross violations of human rights, or foster those that violate relevant treaty obligations of the parties in this field. 5.  Accountability of United Nations personnel Accountability for violations international human rights or humanitarian law committed by individual United Nations personnel could be addressed in the same way as those committed by any other individual, with prosecution, where appropriate, in a State’s domestic courts. Such personnel usually benefit from immunities in the territory where they are deployed. However, following international human rights law and international humanitarian law principles of accountability and the Charter of the United Nations, the   S/2000/915, para. 22. 127