A/RES/72/168. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2017

• Resolution Number: A/RES/72/168
• Year: 2017
• Session: 72nd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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Seventy -secon d session

Agen da item 72 (b)

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 19 December 2017

[on th e report of the Third Committe e (A/72/ 439/ Add.2 )]

72/168 . Human rights and unila teral coercive measures

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g all its previ ous re solution s on this s ubject, the most re cent o f whic h

was reso lution 71/1 93 of 19 De cember 2016 , an d H uman Rights Co uncil decisi on

18/1 20 of 3 0 Septem ber 2 011

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a nd re solution s 24/ 14 of 2 7 Septe mber 2 013,

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27/2 1

of 26 Septe mber 2014,

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30/2 o f 1 Oc tober 2015

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a nd 36 /10 of 28 Septe mber 2017,

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as we ll as p revious resol utions of th e Counc il and t he Comm ission on Hu man

Righ ts,

Reaf firm ing the p ertinent princi ples an d provi sions c ontaine d in t he Cha rter of

Econ omic Rights and Dut ies of States procl aimed by the Gener al Ass embly in its

resol ution 328 1 (XXIX) of 1 2 Decemb er 1974, in p articula r article 32 th ereof, in

whic h it declared that no S tate m ay use or e ncourag e the use o f eco nomic, politic al

or any o ther t ype of meas ures to coer ce ano ther S tate i n ord er to obtain from it t he

subo rdinatio n of the exercis e of its soverei gn right s,

Taking n ote of the r eports of t he Speci al Rappor teur of t he Human R ights

Coun cil on the ne gative impact of uni lateral coerci ve meas ures o n the enjoyme nt of

huma n r ights, sub mitted pur suant to Gen eral Assemb ly resoluti on 71/19 3

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and to

Huma n Rig hts Co uncil resoluti ons 27/21 and 3 0/2,

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an d rec alling the r eports of th e

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See Off icial Records of the Gener al Asse mbly, Si xty-si xth Ses sion, S upple ment N o. 53A and

corri gendu m (A/6 6/53 /Add .1 and A/6 6/53 /Add .1/ Corr.1 ), ch ap. III.

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Ibid., Sixty-ei ghth S ession , Suppl ement No. 53A ( A/68/5 3/A dd.1 ), cha p. III.

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Ibid., Sixty-ni nth Se ssion, Supple ment No. 53A an d corr igenda (A/69 /53/ Add. 1,

A/69 /53/ Add. 1/C orr.1 an d A/69/5 3/Ad d.1/ Cor r.2), c hap. IV, sect. A.

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Ibid., Seventi eth Se ssion, Supple ment No. 53A (A /70 /53/ Add. 1), c hap. III.

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Ibid., Seventy -sec ond Se ssion, Supple ment No. 53A (A /72/ 53/ Add. 1), c hap. III.

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A/72/37 0.

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A/HRC/3 3/4 8.