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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/109
18 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 110
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/642)]
52/109. M e a s u r e s t o c o m b a t c o n t e m p o r a r y f o r m s o f r a c i s m , r a c i a l
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 51/79 of 12 December 1996, and taking note of Commission on Human
Rights resolutions 1997/73 and 1997/74 of 18 April 1997,1
Bearing in mind the outcome of the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14
to 25 June 1993, in particular the attention given in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action2
to the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance,
Aware that racism, as one of the exclusionist phenomena plaguing many societies, requires resolute
action and cooperation for its eradication,
1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1997, Supplement No. 3 (E/1997/23),
chap. II, sect. A.
2
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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