A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/116 7 March 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 110 (c) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/619/Add.3 and Corr.1)] 51/116. Situation of human rights in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the International Covenants on Human Rights2 and all other human rights instruments and instruments of international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 19493 for the protection of victims of war and the Additional Protocols thereto, of 1977,4 as well as the principles and commitments undertaken by participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil their obligations under the human rights instruments to which they are party, and reaffirming also the obligation of all to respect international humanitarian law, 1 Resolution 217 A (III). 2 Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973. 4 Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513. 97-77167 /...