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implemented and enforced by, inter alia, resorting to war and militarism, with all their
negative implications for the social-humanitarian activities and economic and social
development of developing countries, including their extraterritorial effects, thereby
creating additional obstacles to the full enjoyment of all human rights by peoples and
individuals under the jurisdiction of other States,
Reaffirming that unilateral coercive measures are a major obstacle to the
implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development,
Recalling article 1, paragraph 2, common to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
which provides that, inter alia, in no case may a people be deprived of its own means of
subsistence,
1.
Calls upon all States to stop adopting or implementing unilateral coercive
measures not in accordance with international law, international humanitarian law, the
Charter of the United Nations and the norms and principles governing peaceful relations
among States, in particular those of a coercive nature with extraterritorial effects, which
create obstacles to trade relations among States, thus impeding the full realization of the
rights set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human
rights instruments, in particular the right of individuals and peoples to development;
2.
Strongly objects to the extraterritorial nature of those measures which, in
addition, threaten the sovereignty of States and, in this context, calls upon all Member
States neither to recognize these measures nor to apply them, and to take effective
administrative or legislative measures, as appropriate, to counteract the extraterritorial
application or effects of unilateral coercive measures;
3.
Condemns the continued unilateral application and enforcement by certain
powers of such measures as tools of political or economic pressure against any country,
particularly against developing countries, with a view to preventing these countries from
exercising their right to decide, of their own free will, their own political, economic and
social systems;
4.
Reiterates its call upon Member States that have initiated such measures to
abide by the principles of international law, the Charter, the declarations of the United
Nations and world conferences and relevant resolutions, and to commit themselves to their
obligations and responsibilities arising from the international human rights instruments to
which they are parties by putting an immediate end to such measures;
5.
Reaffirms, in this context, the right of all peoples to self-determination, by
virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their own
economic, social and cultural development;
6.
Also reaffirms its opposition to any attempt aimed at the partial or total
disruption of the national unity and territorial integrity of a State, which is incompatible
with the Charter;
7.
Recalls that, according to the Declaration on Principles of International Law
concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the
Charter of the United Nations, and to the relevant principles and provisions contained in the
Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, proclaimed by the General Assembly in
its resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, in particular article 32 thereof, no State
may use or encourage the use of economic, political or any other type of measure to coerce
another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign
rights and to secure from it advantages of any kind;
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