in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations that creates
obstacles to trade relations among States and impedes the full realization of all human
rights, and also severely threatens the freedom of trade,
Deeply concerned that, despite the resolutions adopted on this issue by the
General Assembly, the former Commission on Human Rights and United Nations
conferences held in the 1990s and their five-year reviews, and contrary to norms of
international law and the Charter of the United Nations, unilateral coercive measures
continue to be promulgated, implemented and enforced, inter alia through 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, inter alia, that in no case may a people be deprived of
its own means of subsistence,
1.
Urges 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 apply them, as well as to take
effective administrative or legislative measures, as appropriate, to counteract the
extraterritorial application or effects of unilateral coercive measures;
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