A/RES/63/179
United Nations
Distr.: General
26 March 2009
General Assembly
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 64 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/430/Add.2)]
63/179. Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on this subject, the most recent of which
was resolution 62/162 of 18 December 2007, Human Rights Council resolution 9/4
of 24 September 2008, 1 and previous resolutions of the Council and the Commission
on Human Rights,
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Reaffirming the pertinent principles and provisions contained in the Charter of
Economic Rights and Duties of States proclaimed by the General Assembly in its
resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, in particular article 32 thereof, in
which it declared that no State may use or encourage the use of economic, political
or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the
subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General 2 submitted pursuant to
Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/21 of 23 April 1999, 3 and the reports
of the Secretary-General on the implementation of General Assembly resolutions
52/120 of 12 December 1997 4 and 55/110 of 4 December 2000, 5
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Stressing that unilateral coercive measures and legislation are contrary to
international law, international humanitarian law, the Charter of the United Nations
and the norms and principles governing peaceful relations among States,
Recognizing the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated
character of all human rights, and in this regard reaffirming the right to development
as an integral part of all human rights,
Recalling the final document of the Fourteenth Conference of Heads of State
or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Havana on 15 and 16 September
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/63/53/Add.1),
chap. I.
2
A/63/272.
3
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
4
A/53/293 and Add.1.
5
A/56/207 and Add.1.
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