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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95a Trade and development, published in 1996.

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Discriminatory Trade Practices Groups of Experts Restrictive Business Practices Trade Restrictions

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4 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General,² which contains a summary of the deliberations of the group of experts on coercive economic measures;

²A/50/439.

Urges the international community to adopt urgent and effective measures to eliminate the use by some developed countries of unilateral coercive economic measures against developing countries which 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;

Requests the Secretary-General to assign to the Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis of the Secretariat, in cooperation with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the task of continuing to monitor the imposition of measures of this nature and to prepare possible methodologies or criteria for evaluating the impact of such measures on the affected countries, including the impact on trade and development, for the consideration of Member States;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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