A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/53/43 22 January 1999 Fifty-third session Agenda item 46 (b) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.47 and Add.1)] 53/43. Fiftieth anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide The General Assembly, Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998/10 of 3 April 19981 on the fiftieth anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,2 Recalling also that, in adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948,3 it recognized the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Recalling further the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,4 in particular chapter VII thereof, entitled “1998 – Human Rights Year”, in which proposals to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary are made, and welcoming the efforts of the High Commissioner to facilitate cooperation between various commemorative initiatives, Guided by the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, as well as other relevant international instruments of human rights, 1 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II, sect. A. 2 Resolution 260 A (III). 3 Resolution 217 A (III). 4 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 36 (A/52/36). 99-76351 /...