A/RES/74/154 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 24 January 2020 Seventy-fourth session Agenda item 70 (b) Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2019 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.2)] 74/154. Human rights and unilateral coercive measures The General Assembly, Recalling all its previous resolutions on this subject, the most recent of which was resolution 73/167 of 17 December 2018, and Human Rights Council decision 18/120 of 30 September 2011 1 and resolutions 24/14 of 27 September 2013, 2 27/21 of 26 September 2014, 3 30/2 of 1 October 2015, 4 36/10 of 28 September 2017, 5 37/21 of 23 March 2018 6 and 40/3 of 21 March 2019, 7 as well as previous resolutions of the Council and the Commission on Human Rights, Reaffirming the pertinent 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, in which it declared that no State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights, __________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 19-22276 (E) See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.1 and A/66/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. III. Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III. Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1, A/69/53/Add.1 /Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A. Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1), chap. III. Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III. Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53) chap. IV, sect. A. Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/74/53) chap. IV, sect. A. 280120 *1922276*

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