A/RES/51/103 Page 2 international law and the Charter of the United Nations that creates obstacles to trade relations among States and impedes the full realization of all human rights,3 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 1995,4 the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action, adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995,5 and the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda, adopted by the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) on 14 June 1996,6 Deeply concerned that, despite the recommendations adopted on this issue by the General Assembly and recent major United Nations conferences, and contrary to general international law and the Charter of the United Nations, unilateral coercive measures continue to be promulgated and implemented with all their extraterritorial effects, inter alia, on the economic and social development of targeted countries and peoples and individuals under the jurisdiction of other States, 1. Urges all States to refrain from adopting or implementing any unilateral measure not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations, in particular those of a coercive nature with all their extraterritorial effects, which create obstacles to trade relations among States, thus impeding the full realization of the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights7 and other international human rights instruments, in particular the right of individuals and peoples to development; 2. Rejects unilateral coercive measures with all their extraterritorial effects as tools for political or economic pressure against any country, in particular against developing countries, because of their negative effects on the realization of all the human rights of vast sectors of their populations, in particular children, women and the elderly; 3. Calls upon Member States that have initiated such measures to commit themselves to their obligations and responsibilities arising from the international human rights instruments to which they are party by revoking such measures at the earliest time possible; 4. Reaffirms, in this context, the right of all peoples to selfdetermination, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development; 3 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III, sect. I, para. 31. 4 A/CONF.166/9, chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 5 A/CONF.177/20, chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. 6 A/CONF.165/14, chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. 7 Resolution 217 A (III). /...