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6.
Reaffirms that all States should promote the establishment, maintenance
and strengthening of international peace and security and, to that end, should do
their utmost to achieve general and complete disarmament under effective
international control, as well as to ensure that the resources released by effective
disarmament measures are used for comprehensive development, in particular that
of the developing countries;
7.
Recalls the proclamation by the General Assembly of the determination
to work urgently for the establishment of a new international economic order based
on equity, sovereign equality, interdependence, common interest and cooperation
among all States, irrespective of their economic and social systems, which shall
correct inequalities and redress existing injustices, make it possible to eliminate the
widening gap between the developed and the developing countries and ensure
steadily accelerating economic and social development and peace and justice for
present and future generations; 3
8.
Reaffirms that the international community should devise ways and
means to remove the current obstacles and meet the challenges to the full realization
of all human rights and to prevent the continuation of human rights violations
resulting therefrom throughout the world;
9.
Urges States to continue their efforts, through enhanced international
cooperation, towards the promotion of a democratic and equitable international
order;
10. Requests the Commission on Human Rights, the human rights treaty
bodies, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the
mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights and the Subcommission on the
Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to pay due attention, within their
respective mandates, to the present resolution and to make contributions for its
implementation;
11. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the
attention of Member States, United Nations organs, bodies and components,
intergovernmental organizations, in particular the Bretton Woods institutions, and
non-governmental organizations and to disseminate it on the widest possible basis;
12. Decides to continue consideration of the matter at its fifty-sixth session
under the item entitled “Human rights questions”.
81st plenary meeting
4 December 2000
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See resolution 3201 (S-VI).
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