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8.
Reaffirms that essential goods, such as food and medicines, should not be
used as tools for political coercion and that under no circumstances should people be
deprived of their own means of subsistence and development;
9.
Underlines the fact that unilateral coercive measures are one of the major
obstacles to the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development and, in this
regard, calls upon all States to avoid the unilateral imposition of economic coercive
measures and the extraterritorial application of domestic laws that run counter to the
principles of free trade and hamper the development of developing countries;
10.
Rejects all attempts to introduce unilateral coercive measures, as well as the
increasing trend in this direction, including through the enactment of laws with
extraterritorial application, which are not in conformity with international law;
11.
Recognizes that the Declaration of Principles adopted at the first phase of the
World Summit on the Information Society, held in Geneva in December 2003, strongly
urges States to avoid and refrain from any unilateral measure in building the information
society;
12.
Invites all special rapporteurs and existing thematic mechanisms of the
Council in the field of economic, social and cultural rights to pay due attention, within the
scope of their respective mandates, to the negative impact and consequences of unilateral
coercive measures;
13.
Decides to give due consideration to the negative impact of unilateral
coercive measures in its task concerning the implementation of the right to development;
14.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in
discharging her functions in relation to the promotion and protection of human rights, to
pay due attention and give urgent consideration to the present resolution;
15.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a thematic study on
the impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, including
recommendations on actions aimed at ending such measures, taking into account all
previous reports, resolutions and relevant information available to the United Nations
system in this regard, and to present the study to the Council at its eighteenth session;
16.
Decides to examine this question in accordance with its annual programme of
work under the same agenda item.
34th meeting
1 October 2010
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 32 to 14, with no abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Angola, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon,
Chile, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Ecuador, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Jordan,
Kyrgyzstan, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania,
Mauritius, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi
Arabia, Senegal, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia
Against:
Belgium, France, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Republic of Korea,
Republic of Moldova, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America]
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