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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/177
24 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 116 (c)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/605/Add.3)]
54/177. Human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the
International Covenants on Human Rights,2 and other human rights instruments,
Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and protect human rights and
fundamental freedoms and to fulfil the obligations they have undertaken under the various international
instruments in this field,
Mindful that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a party to the International Covenants on Human Rights,
Recalling its previous resolutions on this subject, including the most recent, resolution 53/158 of
9 December 1998, and taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/13 of 23 April 1999,3
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
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