A/RES/53/31. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1998

• Resolution Number: A/RES/53/31
• Year: 1998
• Session: 53rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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A/RES/53/31

5 January 1999

Fifty-third session

Agenda item 33

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.38 and Add.1)]

53/31. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and

consolidate new or restored democracies

The General Assembly,

Bearing in mind the indissoluble links between the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration

of Human Rights1and the foundations of any democratic society,

Recalling the Manila Declaration2adopted by the First International Conference of New or Restored

Democracies3in June 1988,

Considering the major changes taking place on the international scene and the aspirations of all

peoples for an international order based on the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations,

including the promotion and encouragement of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for

all and other important principles, such as respect for the equal rights and self-determination of peoples,

peace, democracy, justice, equality, the rule of law, pluralism, development, better standards of living and

solidarity,

1Resolution 217 A (III).

2A/43/538, annex.

3Then called the International Conference of Newly Restored Democracies.

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