Resolution 50/129
(December 21, 1995)
A majority of 126 voted in favor of this
resolution which condemned Israeli settlements in
the territories. The resolution also included
Jerusalem as part of the occupied territory. This
led the United States to join Israel in voting
against. 28 nations abstained.
The General Assembly,
Recalling Economic and Social Council
resolution 1995/49 of 28 July 1995, Reaffirming
the principle of the permanent sovereignty of
people under foreign occupation over their
national resources,
Guided by the principles of the Charter of the
United Nations, affirming the inadmissibility of
the acquisition of territory by force, and
recalling Security Council resolutions 242 (1967)
of 22 November 1967 and 497 (1981) of 17 December
1981,
Recalling Security Council resolution 465
(1980) of 1 March 1980 and other resolutions
affirming the applicability of the Geneva
Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian
Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the
occupied Palestinian territory, including
Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by
Israel since 1967,
Recalling also Security Council resolution 904
(1994) of 18 March 1994, in which, among other
things, the Council called upon Israel, the
occupying Power, to continue to take and
implement measures, including, inter alia,
confiscation of arms, with the aim of preventing
illegal acts of violence by Israeli settlers, and
called for measures to be taken to guarantee the
safety and protection of the Palestinian
civilians in the occupied territory,
Aware of the negative and grave economic and
social repercussions of the Israeli settlements
on the Palestine people in the Palestinian
territory, occupied since 1967, including
Jerusalem, and on the Arab population of the
occupied Syrian Golan,
Welcoming the ongoing Middle East peace
process started at Madrid, in particular the two
implementation agreements embodied in the
Agreement on the Gaza Strip and Jericho Area, of
4 May 1994, and the interim agreement on the West
Bank and Gaza Strip of 28 September 1995,
1. Takes note of the report of the
Secretary-General;
2. Reaffirms that Israeli settlements in the
Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and
other Arab territories occupied since 1967 are
illegal and an obstacle to economic and social
development;
3. Recognizes the economic and social
repercussions of the Israeli settlements on the
Palestinian people in the Palestinian territory
occupied by Israel since 1967, including
Jerusalem, and on the Arab population of the
occupied Syrian Golan;
4. Reaffirms the inalienable right of the
Palestinian people and the population of the
occupied Syrian Golan to their natural and all
other economic resources, and regards any
infringement thereupon as illegal;
5. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to
the General Assembly at its fifty-first session,
through the Economic and Social Council, a report
on the progress made in the implementation of the
present resolution.
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