A/RES/74/168
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
situations and reports of special rapporteurs and
representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.3)]
74/168.
Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and
recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 international human rights
treaties and other relevant international instruments and declarations,
Recalling the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination, 2 the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment 3 and the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, 4
Recalling also the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 5 and Additional
Protocol I thereto, of 1977, 6 as applicable, as well as relevant customary
international law,
Confirming the primary responsibility of States to promote and protect human
rights,
Reaffirming the responsibility of States to respect international law, including
the principle that all States shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the
territorial integrity or political independence of any State and from acting in any other
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Resolution 217 A (III).
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 1465, No. 24841.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, No. 17512.
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