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PREAMBLE     [go to this PREAMBLE]
... The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, ...
... Reaffirming the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, adopted at Stockholm on 16 June 1972, and seeking to build upon it, ...


PRINCIPLE-2     [go to this PRINCIPLE]
... States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction. ...


PRINCIPLE-26     [go to this PRINCIPLE]
... States shall resolve all their environmental disputes peacefully and by appropriate means in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. ...