A/RES/71/190. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2016

• Resolution Number: A/RES/71/190
• Year: 2016
• Session: 71st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/71/190

General Assembly

Distr.: General

2 February 2017

Seventy-first session

Agenda item 68 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/484/Add.2)]

71/190. Pro motion of a democrat ic and equitable

international order

The General Assembly ,

Reca lling i ts pre vious reso lutions on the prom otion of a democ ratic and

equi table in ternatio nal ord er, incl uding r esolutio n 70/ 149 of 17 D ecember 2015, and

Huma n Right s C ouncil r esolutio ns 18/6 of 29 Septemb er 2011

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and 33/3 of

29 Sept ember 2 016,

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Reaf firmi ng the co mmitmen t of all St ates to fulfil their obliga tions to pro mote

unive rsal respe ct for, an d obse rvance and prote ction of, all hum an ri ghts a nd

fund amental freedo ms for all, i n accor dance with th e Chart er of the Un ited Na tions,

othe r instru ments re lating to huma n rights and int ernation al law,

Affi rming th at the enhan cement of i nternati onal c ooperati on for the promoti on

and pr otection of all hu man right s sho uld contin ue to be ca rried out in fu ll

confo rmity with t he pur poses a nd pri nciples of th e Char ter a nd int ernatio nal law, as

set for th in Articl es 1 and 2 of the Ch arter, and wi th full resp ect for, inter a lia,

sove reignty, territo rial i ntegrity, politi cal i ndepend ence, the non-use of force or the

thre at of force i n interna tional rel ations an d non-in terventi on in matt ers that ar e

esse ntially within t he domes tic juri sdiction of any State,

Reca lling t he Pre amble to the Char ter, in parti cular the dete rminatio n to

reaff irm f aith in fu ndament al hu man rights, in the dignity and worth of the human

perso n and i n the eq ual rig hts of m en and women a nd of na tions la rge and small,

Reaf firmi ng th at every one is en titled to a social and inte rnationa l order i n

whic h the righ ts and fre edoms se t forth in the Univ ersal Dec laration of Human

Righ ts

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can be full y realiz ed,

Reaf firming also t he dete rminatio n expr essed i n the P reamble to th e Chart er to

save succ eeding genera tions from the s courge of w ar, to estab lish c onditio ns und er

whic h just ice an d resp ect fo r the obligat ions arising from treatie s and other source s

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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.

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Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II.

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Resolution 217 A (III).