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2. Urges the international community to adopt urgent and effective measures to eliminate the use of
unilateral coercive economic measures against developing countries which are not authorized by relevant
organs of the United Nations or are inconsistent with the principles of international law as set forth in the
Charter of the United Nations, and which contravene the basic principles of the multilateral trading system;
3. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to monitor the imposition of measures of this nature and
to study the impact of such measures on the affected countries, including the impact on trade and
development;
4. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth
session on the implementation of the present resolution.
77th plenary meeting
18 December 1997