A/RES/72/190
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 72 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.3)]
72/190.
Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and
recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 international human rights
treaties and other relevant international instruments and declarations,
Recalling the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 2 and Additional Protocol I
thereto, of 1977, 3 as applicable, as well as relevant customary international law,
Confirming the primary responsibility of States to promote and protect human
rights,
Reaffirming the responsibility of States to respect international law, including
the principle that all States shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the
territorial integrity or political independence of any State and from acting in any other
manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations, recalling its resolution
2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970, in which it approved the Declaration on Principles
of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in
accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming the principles
contained therein,
Recalling its resolution 68/262 of 27 March 2014 on the territorial integrity of
Ukraine, in which it affirmed its commitment to the sovereignty, political
independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally
recognized borders, resolution 71/205 of 19 December 2016 on the situation of human
rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine),
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17-23187 (E)
Resolution 217 A (III).
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, No. 17512.
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