Resolution 46/74
(December 11, 1991)
A
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 181 (II) of 29 November 1947, 194 (III) of
11 December 1948, 3236 (XXIX) of 22 November 1974, 3375 (XXX) and 3376 (XXX)
of 10 November 1975, 31/20 of 24 November 1976, 32/40 of 2 December 1977,
33/28 of 7 December 1978, 34/65 A and B of 29 November 1979 and 34/65 C and
D of 12 December 1979, ES-7/2 of 29 July 1980, 35/169 of 15 December 1980,
36/120 of 10 December 1981, ES-7/4 of 28 April 1982, 38/58 A of 13 December
1983, 39/49 A of 11 December 1984, 40/96 A of 12 December 1985, 41/43 A of
2 December 1986, 42/66 A of 2 December 1987, 43/175 A of 15 December 1988,
44/41 A of 6 December 1989 and 45/67 A of 6 December 1990,
Having considered the report of the Committee on the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People,1/
1. Expresses its appreciation to the Committee on the Exercise of
the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People for its efforts in
performing the tasks assigned to it by the General Assembly;
2. Endorses the recommendations of the Committee contained in
paragraphs 87 to 95 of its report and draws the attention of the Security
Council to the fact that action on the recommendations of the Committee, as
repeatedly endorsed by the General Assembly at its thirty-first session and
subsequently, is still awaited;
3. Requests the Committee to continue to keep under review the
situation relating to the question of Palestine as well as the
implementation of the Programme of Action for the Achievement of
Palestinian Rights 2/ and to report an make suggestions to the
General Assembly or the Security Council, as appropriate
4. Authorizes the Committee to continue to exert all efforts to
promote the implementation of its recommendations, including representation
at conferences and meetings and the sending of delegations, to make such
adjustments in its approved programme of seminars and symposia and meetings
for non-governmental organizations as it may consider necessary, to give
special emphasis to the need to mobilize public opinion in Europe and North
America, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its forty-seventh
session and thereafter;
5. Also requests the Committee to continue to extend its cooperation
to non-governmental organizations in their contribution towards heightening
international awareness of the facts relating to the question of Palestine
and creating a more favourable atmosphere for the full implementation of
the recommendations of the Committee, and to take the necessary steps to
expand its contacts with those organizations;
6. Requests the United Nations Conciliation Commission for
Palestine, established under General Assembly resolution 194 (III), as well
as other United Nations bodies associated with the question of Palestine,
to continue to cooperate fully with the Committee and to make available to
it, at its request, the relevant information and documentation which they
have at their disposal;
7. Decides to circulate the report of the Committee to all the
competent bodies of the United Nations and urges them to take the necessary
action, as appropriate, in accordance with the programme of implementation
of the Committee
8. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the
Committee with all the necessary facilities for the performance of its
tasks.
B
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Committee on the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People,1/
Taking note, in particular, of the relevant information contained in
paragraphs 53 to 74 of that report,
Recalling its resolutions 32/40 B of 2 December 1977, 33/28 C of 7
December 1978, 34/65 D of 12 December 1979, 35/169 D of 15 December 1980,
36/120 B of 10 December 1981, 37/86 B of 10 December 1982, 38/58 B of 13
December 1983, 39/49 B of 11 December 1984, 40/96 B of 12 December 1985,
41/43 B of 2 December 1986, 42/66 B of 2 December 1987, 43/175 B of 15
December 1988, 44/41 B of 6 December 1989 and 45/67 B of 6 December 1990,
1. Takes note with appreciation of the action taken by the
Secretary-General in compliance with its resolution 45/67 B;
2. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Division for
Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat with the necessary resources,
including a computer-based information system, and to ensure that it
continues to discharge the tasks detailed in paragraph 1 of resolution
32/40 B, paragraph 2 (b) of resolution 34/65 D, paragraph 3 of resolution
36/120 B, paragraph 3 of resolution 38/58 B, paragraph 3 of resolution
40/96 B, paragraph 2 of resolution 42/66 B and paragraph 2 of resolution
44/41 B, in consultation with the Committee on the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and under its guidance;
3. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure the continued
cooperation of the Department of Public Information and other units of the
Secretariat in enabling the Division for Palestinian Rights to perform its
tasks and in covering adequately the various aspects of the question of
Palestine;
4. Invites all Governments and organizations to lend their
cooperation to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of
the Palestinian People and the Division for Palestinian Rights in the
performance of their tasks;
5. Takes note with appreciation of the action taken by Member States
to observe annually on 29 November the International Day of Solidarity with
the Palestinian People.
C
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Committee on the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People,1/
Taking note, in particular, of the information contained in
paragraphs 75 to 86 of that report,
Recalling its resolutions 45/67 C and 45/68 of 6 December 1990,
Convinced that the world-wide dissemination of accurate and
comprehensive information and the role of non-governmental organizations
and institutions remain of vital importance in heightening awareness of and
support for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to
self-determination and to the establishment of an independent sovereign
Palestinian State,
1. Takes note with appreciation of the action taken by the
Department of Public Information of the Secretariat in compliance with
General Assembly resolution 45/67 C;
2. Requests the Department of Public Information, in full
cooperation and coordination with the Committee on the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, to continue, with the
necessary flexibility as may be required by developments affecting the
question of Palestine, its special information programme on the question of
Palestine for the biennium 1992-1993, with particular emphasis on public
opinion in Europe and North America and, in particular:
(a) To disseminate information on all the activities of the United
Nations system relating to the question of Palestine, including reports of
the work carried out by the relevant United Nations organs;
(b) To continue to issue and update publications on the various
aspects of the question of Palestine, including Israeli violations of the
human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arab inhabitants of the
occupied territories as reported by the relevant United Nations organs;
(c) To expand its audiovisual material on the question of Palestine,
including the production of such material;
(d) To organize and promote fact-finding news missions for
journalists to the area, including to the occupied territories;
(e) To organize international, regional and national encounters for
journalists.
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1/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-sixth Session,
Supplement No. 35 (A/46/35).
2/ Report of the International Conference on the Question of
Palestine, Geneva, 29 August-7 September 1983 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.83.I.21), chap. I, sect. B.
RECORDED VOTE ON RESOLUTION 46/74 A: 121-1-28
In favour: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bahamas, Bahrain,
Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil,
Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central
African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Cyprus, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador,
Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Gabon,
Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras,
Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lao
People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar,
Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius,
Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua,
Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar,
Republic of Korea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal,
Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan,
Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia,
Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, USSR, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of
Tanzania, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia,
Zimbabwe.
Against: Israel, United States.
Abstaining: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Canada, Congo, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, United
Kingdom.
Absent: Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Cambodia, Côte d'Ivoire,
Dominican Republic, Estonia, Guinea-Bissau, Latvia, Mali, Papua New Guinea,
Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Zaire.
RECORDED VOTE ON RESOLUTION 46/74 B: 121-1-28
In favour: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bahamas, Bahrain,
Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil,
Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central
African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Cyprus, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador,
Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Gabon,
Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras,
Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lao
People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar,
Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius,
Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua,
Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar,
Republic of Korea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal,
Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan,
Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia,
Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, USSR, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of
Tanzania, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia,
Zimbabwe.
Against: Israel, United States.
Abstaining: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Canada, Congo, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, United
Kingdom.
Absent: Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Cambodia, Côte d'Ivoire,
Dominican Republic, Estonia, Guinea-Bissau, Latvia, Mali, Papua New Guinea,
Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Zaire.
RECORDED VOTE ON RESOLUTION 46/74 C: 125-2-23
In favour: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain,
Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil,
Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central
African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Cyprus, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador,
Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji,
Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana,
Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan,
Kenya, Kuwait, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia,
Libya, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta,
Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco,
Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman,
Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Republic of Korea,
Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra
Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland,
Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey,
Uganda, Ukraine, USSR, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania,
Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Against: Israel, United States.
Abstaining: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,
Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, United Kingdom.
Absent: Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Cambodia, Congo, Côte
d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Guinea-Bissau, Latvia, Mali, Papua
New Guinea, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Zaire.
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