United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/60/155
Distr.: General
23 February 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 71 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/509/Add.2 (Part II))]
60/155. Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on this subject, the most recent of which
was resolution 59/188 of 20 December 2004, and Commission on Human Rights
resolution 2005/14 of 14 April 2005, 1
Reaffirming the pertinent principles and provisions contained in the Charter of
Economic Rights and Duties of States proclaimed by the General Assembly in its
resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, in particular article 32 thereof, in
which it declared that no State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or
any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the
subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 2 submitted pursuant to
Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/21 of 23 April 1999, 3 and the reports
of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolutions 52/120 of 12 December
1997 4 and 55/110 of 4 December 2000, 5
Recognizing the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated character
of all human rights, and, in this regard, reaffirming the right to development as an
integral part of all human rights,
Recalling that the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from
14 to 25 June 1993, called upon States to refrain from any unilateral coercive measure
not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations that
creates obstacles to trade relations among States and impedes the full realization of all
human rights, 6
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum
(E/2005/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
2
E/CN.4/2000/46 and Add.1.
3
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
4
A/53/293 and Add.1.
5
A/56/207 and Add.1.
6
See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III, sect. I, para. 31.
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