A/RES/73/194
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 34 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.47 and A/73/L.47/Add.1)]
73/194.
Problem of the militarization of the Autonomous Republic of
Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, as well as parts
of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Charter of the United Nations, which states, inter alia, that all
Members of the United Nations shall refrain in their international relations from the
threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any
State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations,
Recalling also its resolution 68/262 of 27 March 2014 on the territorial integrity
of Ukraine, in which it affirmed its commitment to the sovereignty, political
independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally
recognized borders,
Recalling further its resolutions 71/205 and 72/190 on the situation of human
rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, of
19 December 2016 and 19 December 2017, respectively,
Condemning the ongoing temporary occupation of part of the territory of
Ukraine, namely, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol
(hereinafter referred to as “Crimea”), by the Russian Federation, and reaffirming the
non-recognition of its annexation,
Recalling that the temporary occupation of Crimea and the threat or use of force
against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine by the Russian
Federation is in contravention of commitments made under the Memorandum on
Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Budapest Memorandum) of 5 December
1994, 1 in which, inter alia, the commitment to respect the independence and
sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine was reaffirmed,
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