United Nations
A/RES/60/172
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 March 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 71 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/509/Add.3 and Corr.1)]
60/172. Situation of human rights in Turkmenistan
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that all States Members of the United Nations have the obligation
to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and the duty to
fulfil the obligations that they have undertaken under the various international
instruments in this field,
Recalling its resolutions 58/194 of 22 December 2003 and 59/206 of 20 December
2004, and Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2003/11 of 16 April 2003 1 and
2004/12 of 15 April 2004, 2
Noting the conclusion of the first needs-assessment mission of the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to Turkmenistan in March 2004
and the ongoing consultations to finalize a possible technical cooperation project,
Noting with appreciation that the Government of Turkmenistan has received
the Chairman-in-Office and the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General of 20 September 2005, 3 which
concludes that, while the Government of Turkmenistan has made some progress in
addressing human rights issues and has shown readiness to cooperate with the
international community, there was a lack of overall improvement in addressing
serious human rights violations,
Reaffirming that improving security and the fight against terrorism should be
conducted in accordance with international law, in particular international human
rights, humanitarian and refugee law, and democratic principles,
1.
Welcomes:
(a) The fact that additional minority religious groups have been allowed to
worship for the first time as a result of the removal of a legal impediment to the full
realization of the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, but
notes that serious violations of these freedoms continue;
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 3 (E/2003/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
Ibid., 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II, sect. A.
3
A/60/367.
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