Unilateral Economic Measures as a Means of Political and Economic Coercion Against Developing Countries

A/RES/78/135View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 16a International trade and development, published in 2023.

What other versions does this mandate have?

15 versions · 1998–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/120

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/120	Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries	1,146	71%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/135	Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries	1,149	73%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/191	Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries	928	53%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/200	Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries	498	89%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/201	Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries	459	98%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

13 reports · 2001–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/415	Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/135
2023	A/78/506	Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/191A/RES/74/200
2021	A/76/310	Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/200
2019	A/74/264	Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/201
2017	A/72/307	Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/185

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Developing Countries Discriminatory Trade Practices International Trade Unilateral Coercive Measures

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;³

³A/78/506.

Urges the international community to adopt urgent and effective measures to eliminate the use of unilateral economic, financial or trade measures that are not authorized by relevant organs of the United Nations, that are inconsistent with the principles of international law or the Charter of the United Nations or that contravene the basic principles of the multilateral trading system and that affect, in particular, but not exclusively, developing countries;

Takes note of the Bridgetown Covenant, adopted at the fifteenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, held in Barbados from 3 to 7 October 2021, in which States are strongly urged to refrain from promulgating and applying any unilateral economic, financial or trade measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations, in the light of concerns over the constraining nature and development implications of such measures that negatively impact the well-being of the populations and can impede the full achievement of economic and social development in the concerned States, as well as impair their trade relations;

Calls upon the international community to condemn and reject the imposition of the use of such measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries that impedes the full achievement of economic and social development;

Recognizes that unilateral coercive economic measures that are inconsistent with the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations constitute a significant obstacle to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in developing countries targeted by these measures;

Calls upon the international community to condemn and reject the imposition of unilateral coercive economic measures that are inconsistent with the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, which impede the capacity of targeted countries to promote post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery;

Requests the Secretary-General to monitor the imposition of unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion and to study, inter alia, with the support and cooperation of the resident coordinators and United Nations country teams, the impact of such measures on the affected countries, including the impact on trade and development;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its eightieth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, with a particular focus on the impacts of unilateral economic measures on the achievement of sustainable development.

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