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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/164
25 February 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 110 (c)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/53/625/Add.3)]
53/164. Situation of human rights in Kosovo
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the
International Covenants on Human Rights2 and other human rights instruments,
Taking note of Security Council resolutions 1160 (1998) of 31 March 1998, 1199 (1998) of 23
September 1998 and 1203 (1998) of 24 October 1998, as well as the statement made on 24 March 1998 by
the Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-fourth session3 and Commission resolution
1998/79 of 22 April 1998,4
Taking fully into account the regional dimensions of the crisis in Kosovo, particularly with regard to the
human rights and the humanitarian situation, and deeply concerned at the potential adverse consequences
thereof,
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
2
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. III,
sect. E, para. 28.
4
Ibid., chap. II, sect. A.
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