United Nations
A/RES/69/189
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 January 2015
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 68 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/488/Add.3)]
69/189. Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights 1 and relevant international human rights treaties,
including the International Covenants on Human Rights,2
Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and
territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic and to the principles of the Charter,
Recalling its resolutions 66/176 of 19 December 2011, 66/253 A of
16 February 2012, 66/253 B of 3 August 2012, 67/183 of 20 December 2012 and
67/262 of 15 May 2013, Human Rights Council resolutions S-16/1 of 29 April
2011, 3 S-17/1 of 23 August 2011,3 S-18/1 of 2 December 2011, 4 19/1 of 1 March
2012, 5 19/22 of 23 March 2012,5 S-19/1 of 1 June 2012, 6 20/22 of 6 July 2012, 7
21/26 of 28 September 2012, 8 22/24 of 22 March 2013, 9 23/1 of 29 May 2013, 10
23/26 of 14 June 2013,10 24/22 of 27 September 2013,11 25/23 of 28 March 2014,12
26/23 of 27 June 2014 13 and 27/16 of 25 September 2014 14 and Security Council
resolutions 2042 (2012) of 14 April 2012, 2043 (2012) of 21 April 2012,
2118 (2013) of 27 September 2013, 2139 (2014) of 22 February 2014, 2165 (2014)
_______________
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. I.
4
Ibid., Supplement No. 53B and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.2 and Corr.1), chap. II.
5
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. III, sect. A.
6
Ibid., chap. V.
7
Ibid., chap. IV, sect. A.
8
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III.
9
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
10
Ibid., chap. V, sect. A.
11
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.
12
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
13
Ibid., chap. V, sect. A.
14
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/69/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. IV, sect. A.
2
14-67678 (E)
*1467678*
Please recycle