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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/21
18 November 1999
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 33
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.11)]
54/21.
Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo
imposed by the United States of America against Cuba
The General Assembly,
Determined to encourage strict compliance with the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter
of the United Nations,
Reaffirming, among other principles, the sovereign equality of States, non-intervention and noninterference in their internal affairs and freedom of international trade and navigation, which are also
enshrined in many international legal instruments,
Recalling the statements of the heads of State or Government at the Ibero-American Summits
concerning the need to eliminate the unilateral application of economic and trade measures by one State
against another that affect the free flow of international trade,
Concerned about the continued promulgation and application by Member States of laws and regulations,
such as that promulgated on 12 March 1996 known as the “Helms-Burton Act”, the extraterritorial effects
of which affect the sovereignty of other States, the legitimate interests of entities or persons under their
jurisdiction and the freedom of trade and navigation,
Taking note of declarations and resolutions of different intergovernmental forums, bodies and
Governments that express the rejection by the international community and public opinion of the
promulgation and application of regulations of the kind referred to above,
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