A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/48/131 15 February 1994 Forty-eighth session Agenda item 114 (b) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/632/Add.2)] 48/131. Enhancing the effectiveness of the principle of periodic and genuine elections The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 44/146 of 15 December 1989, 45/150 of 18 December 1990, and especially 46/137 of 17 December 1991 and 47/138 of 18 December 1992, as well as the annex to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1989/51 of 7 March 1989, 1/ Bearing in mind the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 2/ adopted by the World Conference of Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, especially the recognition therein that assistance provided upon the request of Governments for the conduct of free and fair elections, including assistance in the human rights aspects of elections and public information about elections, is of particular importance in the strengthening and building of institutions relating to human rights and the strengthening of a pluralistic civil society, and that special emphasis should be given to measures that assist in achieving those goals; 3/ Reaffirming that electoral assistance is provided only at the specific request of the Member State concerned, ______________ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1989, 1/ Supplement No. 2 (E/1989/20), chap. II, sect. A. 2/ A/CONF/157/24 (Part I), chap. III. 3/ Ibid., sect. II, para. 67. /...