A/RES/73/170
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/589/Add.2)]
73/170.
Promotion of peace as a vital requirement for the full enjoyment
of all human rights by all
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 65/222 of 21 December 2010, 67/173 of 20 December
2012 and 69/176 of 18 December 2014, and Human Rights Council resolutions
20/15 of 5 July 2012, 1 23/16 of 13 June 2013, 2 27/17 of 25 September 2014, 3
30/12 of 1 October 2015 4 and 35/4 of 22 June 2017, 5 entitled “Promotion of the right
to peace”,
Recalling also its resolution 39/11 of 12 November 1984, entitled “Declaration
on the Right of Peoples to Peace”, and the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 6
Determined to foster strict respect for the purposes and principles enshrined in
the Charter of the United Nations,
Bearing in mind that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve
international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social,
cultural or humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for
human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex,
language or religion,
Underlining, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United
Nations, its full and active support for the United Nations and for the enhancement of
its role and effectiveness in strengthening international peace and security and justice
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and
corrigenda (A/67/53, A/67/53/Corr.1 and A/67/53/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1,
A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/72/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Resolution 55/2.
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