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- ↑ General Assembly resolution 62/62
- ↑ General Assembly resolution 52/152
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- ↑ E.g. the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Genocide Convention and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
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