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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/155
25 February 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 110 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/53/625/Add.2)]
53/155. Right to development
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions and those of the Commission on Human Rights relating to the right
to development,
Emphasizing that the promotion, protection and realization of the right to development are an integral
part of the promotion and protection of all human rights at the national and international levels,
Noting that the human person is the central subject of development and that development policy should
therefore make the human being the main participant in and beneficiary of development,
Stressing the importance of creating an economic, political, social, cultural and legal environment that
will enable people to achieve social development at the national and international levels,
Recalling that, in order to promote development, equal attention and urgent consideration should be
given to the implementation, promotion and protection of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights,
and recognizing that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated and that the
universality, objectivity, impartiality and non-selectivity of the consideration of human rights issues must be
ensured,
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