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UNITED
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General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/54/178
24 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 116 (c)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/605/Add.3)]
54/178. Human rights situation in Iraq
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the
International Covenants on Human Rights,2 and other human rights instruments,
Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and protect human rights and
fundamental freedoms and to fulfil the obligations they have undertaken under the various international
instruments in this field,
Mindful that Iraq is a party to the International Covenants on Human Rights, to other international
human rights instruments and to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 for the protection of victims
of war,3
Recalling its previous resolutions and those of the Commission on Human Rights on the subject, and
taking note of the most recent, Commission resolution 1999/14 of 23 April 1999,4
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
2
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
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4
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/23), chap. II,
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