A/RES/67/170
United Nations
Distr.: General
20 March 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 69 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/457/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
67/170. Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on this subject, the most recent of which
was resolution 66/156 of 19 December 2011, and Human Rights Council decision
18/120 of 30 September 2011 1 and resolution 19/32 of 23 March 2012, 2 as well as
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 66/156, 3 and recalling the reports of the
Secretary-General on the implementation of Assembly resolutions 52/120 of
12 December 1997 4 and 55/110 of 4 December 2000, 5
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,
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum
(A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. III.
2
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. III.
3
A/67/181.
4
A/53/293 and Add.1.
5
A/56/207 and Add.1.
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