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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/99
3 March 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 110 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/619/Add.2)]
51/99.
Right to development
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Declaration on the Right to Development,1 which it
proclaimed at its forty-first session,
Noting that 4 December 1996 marked the tenth anniversary of the adoption
of the Declaration on the Right to Development, which represents a landmark
and a meaningful instrument for countries and people worldwide,
Reaffirming the commitment contained in the Charter of the United
Nations to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger
freedom,
Recalling its resolutions 45/97 of 14 December 1990, 46/123 of
17 December 1991, 47/123 of 18 December 1992, 48/130 of 20 December 1993,
49/183 of 23 December 1994 and 50/184 of 22 December 1995 and those of the
Commission on Human Rights relating to the right to development, and taking
note of Commission resolution 1996/15 of 11 April 1996,2
Recalling also the report on the Global Consultation on the Realization
of the Right to Development as a Human Right,3
1
Resolution 41/128, annex.
2
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1996, Supplement
No. 3 (E/1996/23), chap. II, sect. A.
3
E/CN.4/1990/9/Rev.1.
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