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Underlining that under no circumstances should people be deprived of their basic
means of survival,
Recognizing that long-term unilateral coercive measures may result in social
problems and raise humanitarian concerns in the States targeted,
Highlighting the deep-rooted problems and grievances within the international
system and the importance for the United Nations to give a voice to all members of the
international community in order to ensure multilateralism, mutual respect and the peaceful
settlement of disputes,
Expressing its grave concern that the laws and regulations imposing unilateral
coercive measures have, in some instances, an extraterritorial effect not only on targeted
countries but also on third countries, in contravention of the basic principles of international
law, in a manner that will coerce the latter also to apply the unilateral coercive measures,
Welcoming the final document and declaration adopted at the seventeenth Summit of
Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement, held on Margarita Island,
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on 17 and 18 September 2016, in which the Movement
reaffirmed, among other things, its principled position of condemnation of the promulgation
and application of unilateral coercive measures against countries of the Movement, which
are in violation of the Charter and international law and undermine, among other things, the
principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence, self-determination
and non-interference,
Reaffirming that each State has full sovereignty over the totality of its wealth,
natural resources and economic activity, exercising it freely, in accordance with General
Assembly resolution 1803 (XVII) of 14 December 1962,
Recalling that the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna from 14 to
25 June 1993, called upon States to refrain from any unilateral measure not in accordance
with international law and the Charter and that created obstacles to trade relations among
States and impeded the full realization of all human rights, and that also severely threatened
the freedom of trade,
Deeply concerned that, despite the resolutions adopted on this issue by the General
Assembly, the Human Rights Council, the Commission on Human Rights and at United
Nations conferences held in the 1990s and at their five-year reviews, and contrary to norms
of international law and the Charter, unilateral coercive measures continue to be
promulgated, implemented and enforced by, inter alia, resorting to war and militarism, with
all their negative implications for the social-humanitarian activities and economic and
social development of developing countries, including their extraterritorial effects, thereby
creating additional obstacles to the full enjoyment of all human rights by peoples and
individuals under the jurisdiction of other States,
Deeply disturbed by the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the right
to life, the rights to health and medical care, the right to freedom from hunger and the right
to an adequate standard of living, food, education, work and housing,
Alarmed by the disproportionate and indiscriminate human costs of unilateral
sanctions and their negative effects on the civilian population, in particular women and
children, of targeted States,
Reaffirming that unilateral coercive measures are major obstacles to the
implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development,
Concerned that unilateral coercive measures have prevented humanitarian
organizations from making financial transfers to States where they work,
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