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other United Nations organs, and to request States applying these measures or laws to revoke
them fully and immediately,
Recalling also that the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna from 14 to
25 June 1993, called upon States to refrain from any unilateral measure not 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 Council, the Commission on Human Rights and at United Nations
conferences held in the 1990s and at 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, by 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;
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