that the review of the practice of appLying such neasures and the consideration of appropriate actions to prevent the spread of the practice constituted one o€ ttre *o"t i,opo.tunt areas of current activity for the United Nations and !'ts bodies' g. It was pointed out in one reply that a number of developing countries had tried to use many of the existing regional and subregiona! insci tu tions - for condemnat.ion of coercive measures applied to a country of the region and for expressing their solidarity with that country' The regional action in that case bas almost alitays been coniined to a join! declaration or condemnation' 10. It t,Jas pointed out that the notion of economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion was very broad and embraced a considerable nuober of ecobomic sanctions and other neasures taken by one country or group of countries to oblige another country or group of countries to act in a cettain way' It l'{as A/40/596 Engli sb Page 4 furtber pointed out that economic measures as a means ofcoerclon l{ere in most cases supplementd by other means,even severance of diplomaeic and cultural relations. Inwere supplemented by nilitary action.political. and economic e. g. deterioration in or some caseg the measures B- Types of coercive economic measures tl' Based on the replies of Governments summarizd in the previous report of thesec retary-cen er aL (A/39/4r5), coercive economic measures may be broadty dividedinto tlro major types of related measures: (a) Coercive economic measures of a discriminatory or restrictive cttaracter,designed to impede or prevent the access of developing countries to the markets ofthe deveLoped market-economy countries, (b) Coercive and restrictive measures proper as anpolitical and econonic pressure.j.nstrument of exerting