United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/56/172
Distr.: General
26 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 119 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/583/Add.3)]
56/172. Situation of human rights in parts of South-Eastern
Europe
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human
Rights, 2 the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 3 and the Protocol
thereto, 4 the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, 5 the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or
Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, 6 the Declaration on the Elimination of
All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, 7 the
Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 8 accepted humanitarian rules, as set
out in the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, 9 and, for participating States of
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Helsinki Final Act of
1 August 1975,
Bearing in mind all resolutions on this subject, in particular Commission on
Human Rights resolution 2001/12 of 18 April 2001 10 and General Assembly
resolution 55/113 of 4 December 2000, as well as all Security Council resolutions
and presidential statements,
Recalling Security Council resolutions 1160 (1998) of 31 March 1998,
1199 (1998) of 23 September 1998, 1203 (1998) of 24 October 1998, 1239 (1999) of
14 May 1999, 1244 (1999) of 10 June 1999 and the general principles annexed
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545.
4
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
5
Resolution 260 A (III).
6
Resolution 47/135, annex.
7
Resolution 36/55.
8
E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2, annex.
9
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
10
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2001, Supplement No. 3 (E/2001/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
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