A/RES/74/166. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2019

• Resolution Number: A/RES/74/166
• Year: 2019
• Session: 74th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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General Assembly

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Seventy -fourth ses sion

Agen da item 70 (c)

Promoti on and prote ction of huma n rights: human rights

situati ons and repo rts of specia l rapporteur s and

represen tatives

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 18 December 2019

[on th e report of the Third Committe e (A/74/ 399/Add. 3)]

74/166. Situa tion o f human rig hts in the D emocra tic People ’s Republi c

of Korea

The General Assembly ,

Reaf firm ing that al l Sta tes have an obligat ion to promote and pro tect human

right s an d fun damenta l fr eedoms and to fulfil the oblig ations that they have

unde rtaken u nder the variou s intern ational instrume nts,

Reca llin g all previous res olutions adop ted b y th e Gen eral Assembl y, the

Comm ission on Huma n R ights and the Huma n Ri ghts Counc il o n th e si tuation of

huma n r ights in the De mocratic Pe ople’s Re public of Kor ea, includi ng As sembly

resol ution 73/180 of 17 D ecember 201 8 and Coun cil re solutio n 40/ 20 of 22 March

2019,

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a nd mindful o f t he need for the i nternatio nal commu nity to stre ngthen its

coor dinated efforts a imed at achievi ng the i mplemen tation o f those resoluti ons,

Deep ly con cerned at the grave human rights situat ion, th e perva sive c ulture of

impu nity and t he lack o f account ability fo r human r ights vio lations i n the Dem ocratic

Peop le’s Rep ublic o f Korea,

Stres sing the import ance of followi ng up on the recomme ndatio ns cont ained i n

the report of the commiss ion of inquir y on hu man ri ghts in the D emocrati c Peopl e’s

Repu blic of Korea,

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and expres sing gr ave co ncern a t the detailed findin gs con tained

ther ein,

Reca llin g the responsi bility of the D emocrat ic Pe ople’s Repu blic of K orea to

prot ect its po pulatio n from cr imes aga inst hum anity, and recalli ng also t hat the

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See Off icial Records of the Gener al Asse mbly, Se venty -fourt h Sessi on, Su ppleme nt No. 53

(A/7 4/53), chap. IV, sect. A .

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A/HRC/2 5/6 3.