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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/148
7 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 94
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/49/752)]
49/148.
Universal realization of the right of
peoples to self-determination
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the importance, for the effective guarantee and observance
of human rights, of the universal realization of the right of peoples to selfdetermination enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and embodied in
the International Covenants on Human Rights, 1/ as well as in the
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
contained in General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960,
Welcoming the progressive exercise of the right to self-determination by
peoples under colonial, foreign or alien occupation and their emergence into
sovereign statehood and independence,
Deeply concerned at the continuation of acts or threats of foreign
military intervention and occupation that are threatening to suppress, or have
already suppressed, the right to self-determination of an increasing number of
sovereign peoples and nations,
Expressing grave concern that, as a consequence of the persistence of
such actions, millions of people have been and are being uprooted from their
homes as refugees and displaced persons, and emphasizing the urgent need for
concerted international action to alleviate their condition,
Recalling the relevant resolutions regarding the violation of the right
of peoples to self-determination and other human rights as a result of foreign
military intervention, aggression and occupation, adopted by the Commission on
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Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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