A/RES/72/191 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 23 January 2018 Seventy-second session Agenda item 72 (c) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2017 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.3)] 72/191. Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic The General Assembly, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 and relevant international human rights treaties, including the International Covenants on Human Rights, 2 Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic and to the principles of the Charter, Recalling its resolutions 66/176 of 19 December 2011, 66/253 A of 16 February 2012, 66/253 B of 3 August 2012, 67/183 of 20 December 2012, 67/262 of 15 May 2013, 68/182 of 18 December 2013, 69/189 of 18 December 2014, 70/234 of 23 December 2015, 71/130 of 9 December 2016, 71/203 of 19 December 2016 and 71/248 of 21 December 2016 and Human Rights Council resolutions S-16/1 of 29 April 2011, 3 S-17/1 of 23 August 2011, 3 S-18/1 of 2 December 2011, 4 19/1 of 1 March 2012, 5 19/22 of 23 March 2012, 5 S-19/1 of 1 June 2012, 6 20/22 of 6 July 2012, 7 21/26 of 28 September 2012, 8 22/24 of 22 March 2013, 9 23/1 of 29 May __________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 17-23188 (E) Resolution 217 A (III). Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. I. Ibid., Supplement No. 53B and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.2 and A/66/53/Add.2/Corr.1), chap. II. Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and A/67/53/Corr.1), chap. III, sect. A. Ibid., chap. V. Ibid., chap. IV, sect. A. Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III. Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. IV, sect. A. 290118 *1723188*