A/RES/69/180. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2014

• Year: 2014
• Resolution Number: A/RES/69/180
• Session: 69th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/69/180

General Assembly Distr.: General

30 January 2015

Sixty-ninth session

Agenda item 68 (b)

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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)]

69/180. Human rights and unilateral coercive measures

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

all its previous resolutions on this subject, the most recent of which

was resolution 68/162 of 18 December 2013, and Human Rights Council decision

18/120 of 30 September 2011

1

and resolutions 24/14 of 27 September 2013

2

and

27/21 of 26 September 2014

3

, as well as previous resolutions of the Council and the

Commission on Human Rights,

Reaffirming

the pertinent principles and provisions contained in the Charter of

Economic Rights and Duties of States proclaimed by the General Assembly in its

resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, in particular article 32 thereof, in

which it declared that no State may use or encourage the use of 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,

Taking note

of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to

General Assembly resolution 68/162,

4

and recalling the reports of the Secretary-

General on the implementation of Assembly resolutions 52/120 of 12 December

1997

5

and 55/110 of 4 December 2000,

6

Stressing

that unilateral coercive measures and legislation are contrary to

international law, international humanitarian law, the Charter of the United Nations

and the norms and principles governing peaceful relations among States,

Recognizing

the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated

character of all human rights, and in this regard reaffirming the right to development

as an integral part of all human rights,

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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. III.

2 Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.

3 Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/69/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. IV,

sect. A.

4 A/69/97.

5 A/53/293 and Add.1.

6 A/56/207 and Add.1.