Human rights and unilateral coercive measures : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Urges all States to refrain from adopting or implementing any unilateral measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the UN; also urges all States to take steps to avoid and to refrain from adopting any unilateral measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that impede the full achievement of economic and social development by the population of the affected countries; rejects unilateral coercive measures with all their extraterritorial effects as tools for political or economic pressure against any country; calls upon Member States that have initiated such measures to commit themselves to their obligations and responsibilities arising from the international human rights instruments to which they are party by revoking such measures at the earliest possible time; urges the Commission on Human Rights to take fully into account the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures; requests the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to give priority to the present resolution in her annual report to the General Assembly; requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention of all Member States, to continue to collect their views and information on the implications and negative effects of unilateral coercive measures on their populations and to submit an analytical report thereon to the General Assembly at its 61st session, highlighting the practical and preventive measures in this respect; decides to examine the question on a priority basis at its 61st session.

Adopted 125-53-0, 64th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 60th sess., Suppl. no. 49.