United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/56/160
Distr.: General
13 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 119 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/583/Add.2)]
56/160. Human rights and terrorism
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 1 the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning
Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of
the United Nations 2 and the International Covenants on Human Rights, 3
Recalling the Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the
United Nations, 4 as well as the Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International
Terrorism, 5
Recalling also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by
the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 6 in which the Conference
reaffirmed that the acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all its forms and
manifestations, as well as its linkage in some countries to drug trafficking, are
activities aimed at the destruction of human rights, fundamental freedoms and
democracy, threatening territorial integrity and the security of States and
destabilizing legitimately constituted Governments, and that the international
community should take the necessary steps to enhance cooperation to prevent and
combat terrorism,
Recalling further the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by the
General Assembly, 7
Recalling its resolutions 48/122 of 20 December 1993, 49/185 of 23 December
1994, 50/186 of 22 December 1995, 52/133 of 12 December 1997 and 54/164 of
17 December 1999,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2625 (XXV), annex.
3
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
See resolution 50/6.
5
Resolution 49/60, annex.
6
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
7
See resolution 55/2.
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