A/RES/68/162
United Nations
Distr.: General
21 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 69 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/456/Add.2)]
68/162. Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on this subject, the most recent of which
was resolution 67/170 of 20 December 2012, and Human Rights Council decision
18/120 of 30 September 2011 1 and resolution 24/14 of 27 September 2013, 2 as well
as previous resolutions of the Council and the Commission on Human Rights,
Reaffirming the pertinent principles and provisions contained in the Charter of
Economic Rights and Duties of States proclaimed by the General Assembly in i ts
resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, in particular article 32 thereof, in
which it declared that no State may use or encourage the use of economic, political
or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the
subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
General Assembly resolution 67/170, 3 and recalling the reports of the SecretaryGeneral on the implementation of Assembly resolutions 52/120 of 12 December
1997 4 and 55/110 of 4 December 2000, 5
Stressing that unilateral coercive measures and legislation are contrary to
international law, international humanitarian law, the Charter of the United Nations
and the norms and principles governing peaceful relations among States,
Recognizing the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelat ed
character of all human rights, and in this regard reaffirming the right to development
as an integral part of all human rights,
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum
(A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. III.
2
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.
3
A/68/211.
4
A/53/293 and Add.1.
5
A/56/207 and Add.1.
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