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UNITED
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General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/54/175
15 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 116 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/605/Add.2)]
54/175. The right to development
The General Assembly,
Guided by the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations, and expressing in particular
the determination to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom as well as to
employ international mechanisms for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,
Recalling its previous resolutions and those of the Commission on Human Rights relating to the right
to development, including its resolution 53/155 of 9 December 1998, and taking note of Commission
resolution 1999/79 of 28 April 1999,1
Recalling also the Declaration on the Right to Development,2 and reaffirming the importance of its full
implementation,
Reaffirming that the right to development, as established in the Declaration on the Right to
Development, is universal and inalienable, and re-emphasizing that its promotion, protection and realization
are an integral part of the promotion and protection of all human rights,
1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
Resolution 41/128, annex.
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