A 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. 98-77539 /...