Resolution Establishing the Council
Text of Resolution 60/251
The following is the text of UN General Assembly Resolution 60/251to establish a Human Rights Council to replace the Human Rights Commission.The General Assembly, Reaffirming the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations, including developing friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self determination of peoples, achieving international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all,Reaffirming also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Vienna Declaration and Program of…
