A/RES/54/200. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1999

• Resolution Number: A/RES/54/200
• Session: 54th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

1 Resolution 2625 (XXV), annex.

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A/RES/54/200

20 January 2000

Fifty-fourth session

Agenda item 97 (c)

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/54/585/Add.3 and Corr.1)]

54/200. Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic

coercion against developing countries

The General Assembly,

Recalling the relevant principles set forth in the Charter of the United Nations,

Reaffirming the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and

Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,1 which states, inter alia,

that no State may use or encourage the use of unilateral economic, political or any other type of measures

to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights,

Bearing in mind the general principles governing the international trading system and trade policies for

development contained in relevant resolutions, rules and provisions of the United Nations and the World Trade

Organization,

Recalling its resolutions 44/215 of 22 December 1989, 46/210 of 20 December 1991, 48/168 of

21 December 1993, 50/96 of 20 December 1995 and 52/181 of 18 December 1997,