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

Urges all States to cease adopting or implementing any unilateral measures not in accordance with international law, the Charter of the UN and the norms and principles governing peaceful relations among States, in particular those of a coercive nature with all their extraterritorial effects, which create obstacles to trade relations among States, thus impeding the full realization of the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments, in particular the right of individuals and peoples to development; strongly objects to the extraterritorial nature of those measures which, in addition, threaten the sovereignty of States; condemns the continuing unilateral application and enforcement by certain Powers of unilateral coercive measures; rejects all attempts to introduce unilateral coercive measures, and urges the Human Rights Council to take fully into account the negative impact of those measures; requests the United Nations 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.

Adopted 132-54-0, 65th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 64th sess., Suppl. no. 49.