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and conferences, in which States members of the Movement agreed to oppose and
condemn those measures or laws and their continued application, persevere with
efforts to effectively reverse them and urge other States to do likewise, as called for
by the General Assembly and other United Nations organs, and request States
applying those measures or laws to revoke them fully and immediately,
Recalling also that, at the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna
from 14 to 25 June 1993, States were called upon to refrain from any unilateral
measure not in accordance with international law and the Charter that creates
obstacles to trade relations among States and impedes the full realization of all
human rights 6 and also severely threatens the freedom of trade,
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 concern about the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures
on international relations, trade, investment and cooperation,
Expressing 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 well-being 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, the Human Rights Council, the Commission on Human
Rights 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,
Reaffirming that unilateral coercive measures are a major obstacle to the
implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development, 10
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6
See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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.
10
Resolution 41/128, annex.
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