United Nations
A/RES/71/203
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 February 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 68 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/484/Add.3)]
71/203. Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights 1 and relevant international human rights treaties,
including the International Covenants on Human Rights, 2
Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and
territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic and to the principles of the Charter,
Recalling its resolutions 66/176 of 19 December 2011, 66/253 A of 16 February
2012, 66/253 B of 3 August 2012, 67/183 of 20 December 2012, 67/262 of 15 May
2013, 68/182 of 18 December 2013, 69/189 of 18 December 2014 and 70/234 of
23 December 2015, Human Rights Council resolutions S-16/1 of 29 April 2011, 3
S-17/1 of 23 August 2011, 3 S-18/1 of 2 December 2011, 4 19/1 of 1 March 2012, 5
19/22 of 23 March 2012, 5 S-19/1 of 1 June 2012, 6 20/22 of 6 July 2012, 7 21/26 of
28 September 2012, 8 22/24 of 22 March 2013, 9 23/1 of 29 May 2013, 10 23/26 of
14 June 2013, 10 24/22 of 27 September 2013, 11 25/23 of 28 March 2014, 12 26/23
of 27 June 2014, 13 27/16 of 25 September 2014, 14 28/20 of 27 March 2015, 15 29/16 of
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. I.
4
Ibid., Supplement No. 53B and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.2 and Corr.1), chap. II.
5
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. III, sect. A.
6
Ibid., chap. V.
7
Ibid., chap. IV, sect. A.
8
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III.
9
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
10
Ibid., chap. V, sect. A.
11
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.
12
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
13
Ibid., chap. V, sect. A.
14
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. IV, sect. A.
15
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. II.
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