A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/48/168 22 February 1994 Forty-eighth session Agenda item 91 (a) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Second Committee (A/48/717/Add.2)] 48/168. Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries The General Assembly, Recalling the relevant principles set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming that no State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights, Bearing in mind the general principles governing international trade and trade policies for development contained in the relevant resolutions and rules of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Reaffirming its resolutions 44/215 of 22 December 1989 and 46/210 of 20 December 1991, Gravely concerned that the use of coercive economic measures adversely affects the economy and development efforts of developing countries and has a general negative impact on international economic cooperation and on the world-wide effort to move towards a non-discriminatory, open trading system, to Having considered the note by the Secretary-General prepared pursuant General Assembly resolution 46/210 and the ideas contained therein, 1/ __________ 1/ A/48/535. /...