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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/116
19 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 112 (a)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/644/Add.1)]
52/116. International Covenants on Human Rights
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 50/171 of 22 December 1995, and taking note of Commission on Human
Rights decision 1997/104 of 3 April 1997,1
Mindful that the International Covenants on Human Rights2 constitute the first all-embracing and
legally binding international treaties in the field of human rights and, together with the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights,3 form the core of the International Bill of Human Rights,
1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1997, Supplement No. 3 (E/1997/23),
chap. II, sect. B.
2
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
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