GEN

Urges Member States to further strengthen international cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights in order to enhance dialogue and broaden understanding among civilizations, cultures and religions; stresses the need to avoid politically motivated and biased country-specific resolutions on the situation of human rights, confrontational approaches, exploitation of human rights for political purposes, selective targeting of individual countries for extraneous considerations and double standards in the work of the UN on human rights issues; affirms that respect for political, economic and cultural diversity for all contributes to the development of stable and friendly relations among countries and equitable and mutually respectful international dialogue on human rights; decides to consider the matter at its 62nd session under the item entitled "Promotion and protection of human rights".

Adopted 86-64-26, 81st plenary meeting

2 p.

Issued in GAOR, 61st sess., Suppl. no. 49.