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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/136
3 March 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 112 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/644/Add.2)]
52/136. Right to development
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Declaration on the Right to Development,1 which it proclaimed at its forty-first
session, and noting that the Declaration represents a landmark and a meaningful instrument for countries
and people worldwide;
Reaffirming also the commitment contained in the Charter of the United Nations to promote social
progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Recalling its previous resolutions and those of the Commission on Human Rights relating to the right
to development,
Also recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference
on Human Rights on 25 June 1993,2 which reaffirms the right to development as a universal and
inalienable right and as an integral part of fundamental human rights and reaffirms that the human person
is the central subject of development,
1
Resolution 41/128, annex.
2
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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