A/RES/69/178. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2014

Resolution NumberA/RES/69/178
Year2014
Session69th
IssuerGeneral Assembly of the United Nation
United Nations A/RES/69/178
General Assembly Distr.: General
28 January 2015
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 68 (b)
14-67662 (E)
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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/488/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
69/178. Promotion of a democratic and equitable
international order
The General Assembly
,
Recalling
its previous resolutions on the promotion of a democratic and
equitable international order, including resolution 68/175 of 18 December 2013, and
Human Rights Council resolutions 18/6 of 29 September 2011
1
and 25/15 of
27 March 2014,
2
Reaffirming
the commitment of all States to fulfil their obligations to promote
universal respect for, and observance and protection of, all human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,
other instruments relating to human rights and international law,
Affirming
that the enhancement of international cooperation for the promotion
and protection of all human rights should continue to be carried out in full
conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter and international law as
set forth in Articles 1 and 2 of the Charter and with full respect for, inter alia,
sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence, the non-use of force or the
threat of force in international relations and non-intervention in matters that are
essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any State,
Recalling
the Preamble to the Charter, in particular the determination to
reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human
person and in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small,
Reaffirming
that everyone is entitled to a social and international order in
which the rights and freedoms set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
3
can be fully realized,
Reaffirming also
the determination expressed in the Preamble to the Charter to
save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, to establish conditions under
which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources
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1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum
(A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II.
2 Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
3 Resolution 217 A (III).

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