United Nations
A/RES/60/12
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 January 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 18
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 November 2005
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/60/L.9)]
60/12. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and
financial embargo imposed by the United States of America
against Cuba
The General Assembly,
Determined to encourage strict compliance with the purposes and principles
enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming, among other principles, the sovereign equality of States, nonintervention and non-interference in their internal affairs and freedom of
international trade and navigation, which are also enshrined in many international
legal instruments,
Recalling the statements of the Heads of State or Government at the IberoAmerican Summits concerning the need to eliminate the unilateral application of
economic and trade measures by one State against another that affect the free flow
of international trade,
Concerned at the continued promulgation and application by Member States of
laws and regulations, such as that promulgated on 12 March 1996 known as the
“Helms-Burton Act”, the extraterritorial effects of which affect the sovereignty of
other States, the legitimate interests of entities or persons under their jurisdiction
and the freedom of trade and navigation,
Taking note of declarations and resolutions of different intergovernmental
forums, bodies and Governments that express the rejection by the international
community and public opinion of the promulgation and application of regulations of
the kind referred to above,
Recalling its resolutions 47/19 of 24 November 1992, 48/16 of 3 November
1993, 49/9 of 26 October 1994, 50/10 of 2 November 1995, 51/17 of 12 November
1996, 52/10 of 5 November 1997, 53/4 of 14 November 1998, 54/21 of 9 November
1999, 55/20 of 9 November 2000, 56/9 of 27 November 2001, 57/11 of
12 November 2002, 58/7 of 4 November 2003 and 59/11 of 28 October 2004,
Concerned that, since the adoption of its resolutions 47/19, 48/16, 49/9, 50/10,
51/17, 52/10, 53/4, 54/21, 55/20, 56/9, 57/11, 58/7 and 59/11, further measures of
that nature aimed at strengthening and extending the economic, commercial and
financial embargo against Cuba continue to be promulgated and applied, and
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