A/RES/60/155
Bearing in mind all the references to this question in the Copenhagen
Declaration on Social Development adopted by the World Summit for Social
Development on 12 March 1995, 7 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995, 8 the
Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda adopted by the
second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) on 14 June
1996, 9 and their five-year reviews,
Expressing its concern about the negative impact of unilateral coercive
measures on international relations, trade, investment and cooperation,
Expressing its grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is
adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with
international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States,
impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the wellbeing of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for
women and children, including adolescents,
Deeply concerned that, despite the recommendations adopted on this question
by the General Assembly and recent major United Nations conferences, and contrary
to general international law and the Charter, unilateral coercive measures continue to
be promulgated and implemented with all their negative implications for the
social-humanitarian activities and economic and social development of developing
countries, including their extraterritorial effects, thereby creating additional obstacles
to the full enjoyment of all human rights by peoples and individuals under the
jurisdiction of other States,
Bearing in mind all the extraterritorial effects of any unilateral legislative,
administrative and economic measures, policies and practices of a coercive nature
against the development process and the enhancement of human rights in developing
countries, which create obstacles to the full realization of all human rights,
Noting the continuing efforts of the open-ended Working Group on the Right to
Development of the Commission on Human Rights, and reaffirming in particular its
criteria, according to which unilateral coercive measures are one of the obstacles to
the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development, 10
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Urges all States to refrain from adopting or implementing any unilateral
measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United
Nations, in particular those of a coercive nature with all their extraterritorial effects,
which create obstacles to trade relations among States, thus impeding the full
realization of the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 11 and
other international human rights instruments, in particular the right of individuals and
peoples to development;
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Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.
8
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
9
Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul, 3–14 June 1996
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.IV.6), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
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Resolution 41/128, annex.
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Resolution 217 A (III).
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