‘Twin Covenants’ of the United Nations

The UN adopted a series of treaties in 1966 called the ‘Twin Covenants’ and called on the member states to sign it. The most important clauses of these covenants were as follows:

1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources ... In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.

3. The States Parties to the present Covenant…, shall promote the realisation of the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.

The "twin Covenants" are:

1. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Sarawak and Sabah nationalists, make sure you engraved this covenants inside your mind.


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Author: Zulfaqar bin Sa'adi. Information Chief of State Reform Party (STAR).