A/RES/73/169
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/589/Add.2)]
73/169.
Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the promotion of a democratic and
equitable international order, including resolution 72/172 of 19 December 2017, and
Human Rights Council resolutions 18/6 of 29 September 2011, 1 33/3 of 29 September
2016, 2 36/4 of 28 September 2017 3 and 39/4 of 27 September 2018, 4
Reaffirming the commitment of all States to fulfil their obligations to promote
universal respect for, and observance and protection of, all human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,
other instruments relating to human rights and international law,
Affirming that the enhancement of international cooperation for the promotion
and protection of all human rights should continue to be carried out in full conformity
with the purposes and principles of the Charter and international law, as set forth in
Articles 1 and 2 of the Charter, and with full respect for, inter alia, sovereignty,
territorial integrity, political independence, the non-use of force or the threat of force
in international relations and non-intervention in matters that are essentially within
the domestic jurisdiction of any State,
Recalling the Preamble to the Charter, in particular the determination to reaffirm
faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and
in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small,
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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. II.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.1 and
A/71/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/73/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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