United Nations
A/RES/55/20
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 January 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 35
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.7)]
55/20.
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 about 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 October 1998 and 54/21 of
9 November 1999,
Concerned that, since the adoption of its resolutions 47/19, 48/16, 49/9, 50/10,
51/17, 52/10, 53/4 and 54/21, 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 concerned also about the adverse
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