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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/129
4 March 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 114 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/632/Add.2)]
48/129.
Strengthening of the Centre for Human Rights of the
Secretariat
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 44/135 of 15 December 1989, 45/180 of 21
December 1990, 46/118 and 46/111 of 17 December 1991 and 47/127 of 18 December
1992, and bearing in mind all relevant resolutions of the Economic and Social
Council and the Commission on Human Rights,
Considering that the promotion of universal respect for and observance
of human rights and fundamental freedoms is one of the basic purposes of the
United Nations enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and of high
importance to the Organization,
Noting that in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 1/
adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25
June 1993, the importance of strengthening the Centre for Human Rights of the
Secretariat is stressed,
Bearing in mind that the Secretary-General, in his reports on the work
of the Organization for 1992 2/ and 1993, 3/ stated that "the Charter of the
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1/
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
2/
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-seventh
Session, Supplement No. 1 (A/47/1), para. 100.
3/
See A/48/1, sect. III.D, para. 250.
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