Recommendations concerning international respect for the right of peoples and nations to self-determination

UN General Assembly, Recommendations concerning international respect for the right of peoples and nations to self-determination, A/RES/837, UN General Assembly, 14 December 1954, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1954/en/7573 [accessed 03 December 2024]
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IX. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
837. Recommendations concerning international respect for the right of peoples and nations to self-determination

The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 637 (VII), 648 (VII) and 738 (VIII), Noting the recommendations[1] of the Commission on Human Rights to the Economic and Social Council, Noting, further, resolution 545 G (XVIII) adopted by the Economic and Social Council, Considering that the preparation of recommendations on measures for promoting the right of self -determination is a matter of immediate concern,

1. Requests the Commission on Human Rights to complete its recommendations concerning international respect for the right of peoples and nations to self-determination, including recommendations concerning their permanent sovereignty over their natural wealth and resources, having due regard to the rights and duties of States under international law and to the importance of encouraging international co-operation in the economic development of under-developed countries, in order that the General Assembly may give those recommendations full and due consideration at its next regular session;

2. Requests the Economic and Social Council to transmit these recommendations to the General Assembly for consideration at its next regular session.

512th plenary meeting,
14 December 1954.
[1] See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Eighteenth Session, Supplement No. 7, annex IV, draft resolution F.
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