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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/10
3 November 1998
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 51
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.7/Rev.1)]
53/10.
Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of political and
economic compulsion
The General Assembly,
Guided by the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations, particularly those that call
for the development of friendly relations among nations and the achievement of cooperation in solving
problems of an economic and social character,
Recalling its numerous resolutions in which it has called upon the international community to take
urgent and effective steps to end coercive economic measures,
Recalling also the final document of the Twelfth Conference of Heads of State or Government of
Non-Aligned Countries, which reaffirmed that coercive economic measures and the enactment of
extraterritorial laws are incompatible with international law and the purposes and principles embodied in
the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling further the decision adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the
Organization of African Unity at its thirty-fourth ordinary session,1 in which that Assembly expressed
concern at the continued imposition of extraterritorial coercive economic measures and demanded the
elimination of such measures,
1
A/53/179.
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