Economic Measures as a Means of Political and Economic Coercion Against Developing Countries

A/RES/40/185View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 84c Trade and development, published in 1986.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1984–1994

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/48/168

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1994	A/RES/48/168	Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries	390	—
1992	A/RES/46/210	Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries	—	—
1990	A/RES/44/215	Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries	—	—
1988	A/RES/42/173	Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries	719	—
1987	A/RES/41/165	Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries	—	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Blockade Developing Countries Development International Economic Relations Sanctions Specialized Agencies Trade Restrictions

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

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Deplores the fact that some developed countries continue to apply and, in some cast>~, ~ 1 ve increased the scope and magnitude of econo!r.; .. measures that have the purpose of exerting, directly or indirectly, coercion on the sovereign decisions of developing countries subject to those measures;

Reaffirms that developed countries should refrain from threatening or applying trade restrictions, blockades, embargoes and other economic sanctions, incompatible with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and in violation of undertakings contracted, multilaterally and bilaterally, against developing countries as a form of political and economic coercion which affects their economic, political and social development;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a comprehensive, in-depth report on the economic measures mentioned in paragraph 2 above, taken by developed coutltries for coercive purposes, including their impact on intetnational economic relations, with a view to appraising the economic effects of such measures on the development and development prospects of affected developing countries and with a view to assisting in concrete international action against those measures, and to submit that report to the General Assembly at its forty-first session;

Also requests the Secretary-General, in preparing the comprehensive in-depth report, to request further comments from Governments and inputs from competent organizations of the United Nations system, particularly the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the regional commissions and those specialized agencies that have received information on the application of economic coercive measures against developing countries;

Appeals to Governments and to the pertinent international organizations to provide the necessary information to the Secretary-General, as requested in paragraph 4 above.

General As..embly- 1-'ortieth Session 42 Report of the l'rw,,d !liat,ons Confereme on the Leas/ Developed 43 A/40/815. annex Countne.<. Pam. i-14 Seprnnber 1981 (United Nations publication. Sales 44TD/C'ODE TOT14<l. sect. IV. No. E.82.1 81, part, 11e. st'CL A.

45 See General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Basic Instruments and 47 A/S-11/14, annex I. Selected Documents, Twenty-ninth Supplement (Sales No. GATI/1983-1),

48 Ibid .. annex II. document U5424.

46 A/40/596.

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