A/RES/74/140
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 69
Right of peoples to self-determination
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/398)]
74/140.
Universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the importance, for the effective guarantee and observance of
human rights, of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self -determination
enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and embodied in the International
Covenants on Human Rights, 1 as well as in the Declaration on the Granting of
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples contained in its resolution
1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960,
Welcoming the progressive exercise of the right to self-determination by peoples
under colonial, foreign or alien occupation and their emergence into sovereign
statehood and independence,
Deeply concerned at the continuation of acts or threats of foreign military
intervention and occupation that are threatening to suppress, or have already
suppressed, the right to self-determination of peoples and nations,
Expressing grave concern that, as a consequence of the persistence of such
actions, millions of people have been or are being uprooted from their homes as
refugees and displaced persons, and emphasizing the urgent need for concerted
international action to alleviate their condition,
Recalling the relevant resolutions regarding the violation of the right of peopl es
to self-determination and other human rights as a result of foreign military
intervention, aggression and occupation adopted by the Commission on Human
Rights at its sixty-first 2 and previous sessions,
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Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 3 and
corrigenda (E/2005/23, E/2005/23/Corr.1 and E/2005/23/Corr.2), chap. II, sect. A.
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