United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/59/188
Distr.: General
15 March 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 105 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/503/Add.2)]
59/188. Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions, the most recent of which was resolution
58/171 of 22 December 2003, and Commission on Human Rights resolution
2004/22 of 16 April 2004, 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, 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), 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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