A 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. 98-76777 /...

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