United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/110
Distr.: General
13 March 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 114 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/602/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
55/110. Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 51/103 of 12 December 1996, 52/120 of 12 December
1997, 53/141 of 9 December 1998 and 54/172 of 17 December 1999, as well as
Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998/11 of 9 April 1998, 1 and taking note
of Commission resolution 2000/11 of 17 April 2000, 2
Reaffirming the pertinent principles and provisions contained in the Charter of
Economic Rights and Duties of States proclaimed by the General Assembly in its
resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, in particular article 32 thereof, in
which it declared that no State may use or encourage the use of economic, political
or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the
subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights,
Taking note of the report submitted by the Secretary-General, 3 pursuant to
Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/21 of 23 April 1999, 4 and the report
of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 52/120, 5
Recognizing the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated
character of all human rights, and, in this regard, reaffirming the right to
development as an integral part of all human rights,
Recalling that the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14
to 25 June 1993, called upon States to refrain from any unilateral coercive measure
not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations that
creates obstacles to trade relations among States and impedes the full realization of
all human rights, 6
1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
Ibid., 2000, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum (E/2000/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
3
E/CN.4/2000/46 and Add.1.
4
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
5
A/53/293 and Add.1.
6
See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III, sect I, para. 31.
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