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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/145
6 March 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 112 (c)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/644/Add.3)]
52/145. Situation of human rights in Afghanistan
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the
International Covenants on Human Rights2 and accepted humanitarian rules, as set out in the Geneva
Conventions of 12 August 19493 and the Additional Protocols thereto, of 1977,4
Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and protect human rights and
fundamental freedoms and to fulfil the obligations they have freely undertaken under the various
international instruments,
Recalling that Afghanistan is a party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide,5 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,2 the International Covenant
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
2
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
4
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
5
Resolution 260 A (III).
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