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General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/54/183
29 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 116 (c)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/605/Add.3)]
54/183. Situation of human rights in Kosovo
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the
International Covenants on Human Rights2 and other human rights instruments,
Bearing in mind Security Council resolutions 1160 (1998) of 31 March 1998, 1199 (1998) of
23 September 1998, 1203 (1998) of 24 October 1998, 1239 (1999) of 14 May 1999 and 1244 (1999) of
10 June 1999, and the general principles annexed to that resolution, as well as the statement made on
24 March 1998 by the Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights at the fifty-fourth session of the
Commission,3 Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1998/79 of 22 April 19984 and 1999/2 of 13 April
19995 and the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Bureau of the
Commission on the situation of human rights in Kosovo of 7 September 1999,
1
2
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. III,
sect. E, para. 28.
4
Ibid., chap. II, sect. A.
5
Ibid., 1999, Supplement No. 3 (E/1999/23), chap. II, sect. A.
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