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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/103
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)]
51/103.
Human rights and unilateral coercive
measures
The General Assembly,
Recalling the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United
Nations,
Reaffirming the pertinent principles and provisions contained in the
Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States proclaimed by the General
Assembly by its resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, in particular
article 32 thereof, in which it is declared 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,
Taking note of the report submitted by the Secretary-General1 pursuant
to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/45 of 3 March 1995,2
Recognizing the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated
character of all human rights, and, in this regard, reaffirming the right to
development as an integral part of all human rights,
Recalling that the World Conference on Human Rights called upon States
to refrain from any unilateral coercive measure not in accordance with
1
E/CN.4/1996/45 and Add.1.
2
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1995, Supplement
No. 3 and corrigenda (E/1995/23 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. II, sect. A.
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