A/RES/67/183
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 February 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 69 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/457/Add.3 and Corr.1)]
67/183. Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights 1 and relevant international human rights treaties,
including the International Covenants on Human Rights, 2
Recalling its resolutions 66/176 of 19 December 2011, 66/253 A of
16 February 2012 and 66/253 B of 3 August 2012, Human Rights Council
resolutions S-16/1 of 29 April 2011, 3 S-17/1 of 23 August 2011,3 S-18/1 of
2 December 2011, 4 19/1 of 1 March 2012, 5 19/22 of 23 March 2012,5 S-19/1 of
1 June 2012, 6 20/22 of 6 July 2012 7 and 21/26 of 28 September 2012 8 and Security
Council resolutions 2042 (2012) of 14 April 2012 and 2043 (2012) of 21 April 2012,
Recalling also all resolutions of the League of Arab States relating to the
situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, in particular resolution 7523 of 5 September
2012, in which the League expressed its strong condemnation of the continuing
violence, murder and heinous crimes committed by the Syrian authorities and the
affiliated shabbiha militias against Syrian civilians and the use of heavy weapons,
including tanks, artillery and warplanes in the bombardment of populated
neighbourhoods and villages, as well as arbitrary executions and enforced
disappearances, in flagrant violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
and called upon the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic to cease immediately
and completely all forms of killing and violence against the Syrian people,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. I.
4
Ibid., Supplement No. 53B and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.2 and Corr.1), chap. II.
5
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. III, sect. A.
6
Ibid., chap. V.
7
Ibid., chap. IV, sect. A.
8
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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