A/RES/68/200. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/200
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/68/200

General Assembly Distr.: General

15 January 2014

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 17 (a)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2013

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/68/436/Add.1)]

68/200. 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, 52/181 of

18 December 1997, 54/200 of 22 December 1999, 56/179 of 21 December 2001,

58/198 of 23 December 2003, 60/185 of 22 December 2005, 62/183 of 19 December

2007, 64/189 of 21 December 2009 and 66/186 of 22 December 2011,

Gravely concerned

that the use of unilateral coercive economic measures

adversely affects the economies and the development efforts of developing countries

in particular and has a general negative impact on international economic

cooperation and on worldwide efforts to move towards a non-discriminatory and

open multilateral trading system,

Recognizing

that such measures constitute a flagrant violation of the principles

of international law as set forth in the Charter, as well as the basic principles of the

multilateral trading system,

1.

Takes note

of the report of the Secretary-General;

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1 Resolution 2625 (XXV), annex.

2 A/68/218.