A/RES/72/190. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2017

• Resolution Number: A/RES/72/190
• Year: 2017
• Session: 72nd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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/RES /72/ 190

General Assembly

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19 Jan uary 20 18

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Seventy -second ses sion

Agen da item 72 (c)

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 19 December 2017

[on th e report of the Third Committe e (A/72/ 439/ Add.3 )]

72/190. Situation of huma n righ ts in the Autonomous Rep ublic of Crimea

and th e city of Sevastop ol, Ukraine

The General Assembly ,

Guid ed b y the purp oses and principl es of the Charter o f the Unit ed Natio ns, and

reca lling the Univ ersal Decl aration of Hu man Rights ,

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interna tional hum an rights

trea ties and other r elevant internat ional in strument s and d eclarati ons,

Recall ing t he Geneva Convention s of 12 Au gust 1949

2

and Ad ditional Pr otocol I

ther eto, of 1 977,

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as a pplicab le, as w ell as r elevant customar y inter national law,

Conf irming the p rimary respon sibility of S tates t o pro mote a nd pro tect hu man

right s,

Reaf firm ing the respon sibility of States to r espect interna tional law, i ncludin g

the princi ple t hat a ll Sta tes s hall refrain from the threat or use of fo rce a gainst the

terri torial int egrity or politica l indepen dence of an y State and from actin g in any oth er

mann er inco nsistent with t he purp oses of the Un ited Na tions, recallin g its r esolutio n

2625 (XXV ) of 2 4 October 1970, in whic h it ap proved the Dec laratio n on Pri nciples

of In ternatio nal Law c oncern ing Frien dly Rela tions an d Cooper ation amo ng State s in

acco rdance with the Cha rter of the United Nat ions, and reaffi rming the princ iples

cont ained th erein,

Reca llin g i ts reso lution 68/262 o f 27 Mar ch 201 4 on the ter ritorial integr ity of

Ukra ine, in wh ich it affi rmed its c ommitme nt to the s overeign ty, politic al

inde pendenc e, unity an d territor ial integ rity of Uk raine wit hin its int ernatio nally

reco gnized bor ders, reso lution 71 /20 5 of 19 D ecember 2 016 on the sit uation of hu man

right s in the Aut onomous Repub lic of Crime a and the city o f Seva stopol (Ukrain e),

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1

Resolut ion 21 7 A (III).

2

United Nations , Treaty Serie s, vol . 75, N os. 970 –973 .

3

Ibid., vol. 1125 , No. 1 751 2.