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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/166
25 February 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 110 (d)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/53/625/Add.4)
53/166. Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 48/121 of 20 December 1993, in which it endorsed the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June
1993,1 as well as its subsequent resolutions on this matter, in particular resolution 52/148 of 12 December
1997,
Recalling also paragraph 100 of section II of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
concerning the five-year review of progress made in the implementation of the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action, including the need to pay special attention to assessing the progress towards the goal
of universal ratification of international human rights treaties and protocols adopted within the framework of
the United Nations system,
Recognizing that the five-year implementation review of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of
Action, carried out on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,2
has provided an opportunity to strengthen the promotion and protection of human rights,
Reaffirming that human rights and fundamental freedoms are the birthright of all human beings, that
their promotion and protection is the first responsibility of Governments, and that all human rights are
universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,
1
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
2
Resolution 217 A (III).
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