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

A/RES/48/168No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 91aTrade and development, published in 1994.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1984–1994
  • 1994A/RES/48/168Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countriesLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1992A/RES/46/210Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countriesCompare with previous version
  • 1990A/RES/44/215Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countriesCompare with previous version
  • 1988A/RES/42/173Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countriesCompare with previous version
  • 1987A/RES/41/165Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countriesCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 topics
Developing CountriesSanctions

What does this mandate say?

4 operative paragraphs
1
Calls upon the international community to adopt urgent and effective measures to eliminate the use by some developed countries of unilateral economic coercive measures against developing countries that are not authorized by relevant organs of the United Nations or are inconsistent with the principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations, as a means of forcibly imposing the will of one State on another;
2
Urges the implementation of its resolutions 44/215 and 46/210;
3
Requests the Secretary-General to assign to the Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis of the Secretariat, in cooperation with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the function of continuing to monitor the imposition of measures of this nature, as well as to continue the preparation of studies in this field as mandated by the General Assembly in its resolutions 44/215 and 46/210;
4
Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fiftieth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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