Economic measures as a means of political and economic coersion against developing countries : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Urges the international community to adopt urgent and effective measures to eliminate the use by some developed countries of unilateral coercive economic measures against developing countries which are not authorized by relevant organs of UN or are inconsistent with the principles contained in the Charter of UN, as a means of forcibly imposing the will of one State on another; requests the Secretary-General to assign to the Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis of the Secretariat, in cooperation with UNCTAD, the task of continuing to monitor the imposition of measures of this nature and to prepare possible methodologies or criteria for evaluating the impact of such measures on the affected countries, including the impact on trade and development, for the consideration of Member States.

Adopted 100-30-22, 96th meeting

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Adopted at the 96th plenary meeting, 20 Dec. 1995.