United Nations
A/RES/65/217
Distr.: General
6 April 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 68 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/456/Add.2 (Part II))]
65/217. Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on this subject, the most recent of which
was resolution 64/170 of 18 December 2009, Human Rights Council resolution
15/24 of 1 October 2010 1 and previous resolutions of the Council and the
Commission on Human Rights,
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 submitted pursuant to
General Assembly resolution 64/170 2 and the reports of the Secretary-General on
the implementation of Assembly resolutions 52/120 of 12 December 1997 3 and
55/110 of 4 December 2000, 4
Stressing that unilateral coercive measures and legislation are contrary to
international law, international humanitarian law, the Charter of the United Nations
and the norms and principles governing peaceful relations among States,
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 the Final Document of the Fifteenth Summit Conference of Heads of
State and Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Sharm
el-Sheikh, Egypt, from 11 to 16 July 2009, 5 and those adopted at previous summits
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1),
chap. II.
2
A/65/119.
3
A/53/293 and Add.1.
4
A/56/207 and Add.1.
5
A/63/965-S/2009/514, annex.
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