This article seeks to make sense of two seemingly contradictory aspects of the General Assembly's practice: its history of recommending to States that they impose unilateral sanctions; and its series of resolutions denouncing unilateral coercive measures as illegal. It examines the seeming discrepancy between the customary international law position regarding unilateral sanctions, and the position asserted by the Assembly, and argues that on a nuanced reading of the Assembly's resolutions, these positions are not so divergent as is often supposed. The article concludes by examining the scope for the Assembly to make future sanctions recommendations, consistently with its prior condemnation of unilateral coercive measures.

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探索大会与单边制裁的麻烦关系

本文试图弄清大会实践中两个看似矛盾的方面：它建议各国实施单方面制裁的历史；及其一系列谴责单方面强制措施非法的决议。它审查了关于单方面制裁的习惯国际法立场与大会所主张的立场之间的表面差异，并认为在对大会决议的细致解读时，这些立场并不像人们通常认为的那样分歧。文章最后审查了大会提出未来制裁建议的范围，与其先前对单方面强制性措施的谴责一致。