Resolution 52/68
(December 10, 1997)
The General Assembly,
Having considered the reports of the Special Committee to Investigate
Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People
and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, 1/
Deeply concerned that the Syrian Golan occupied since 1967 has been
under continued Israeli military occupation,
Recalling Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
Recalling also its previous relevant resolutions, the last of which
was resolution 51/135 of 13 December 1996,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General submitted in
pursuance of resolution 51/135, 2/
Recalling its previous relevant resolutions in which, inter alia, it
called upon Israel to put an end to its occupation of the Arab
territories,
Reaffirming once more the illegality of the decision of 14 December
1981 taken by Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration
on the occupied Syrian Golan, which has resulted in the effective
annexation of that territory,
Reaffirming that the acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible
under international law, including the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming also the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative
to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 3/
to the occupied Syrian Golan,
Bearing in mind Security Council resolution 237 (1967) of 14 June
1967,
Welcoming the convening at Madrid of the Peace Conference on the
Middle East on the basis of Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) of
22 November 1967 and 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973 aimed at the
realization of a just, comprehensive and lasting peace, and expressing
grave concern about the stalling of the peace process on the Syrian and
Lebanese tracks,
1. Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant
resolutions on the occupied Syrian Golan, in particular Security Council
resolution 497 (1981), in which the Council, inter alia, decided that the
Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on
the occupied Syrian Golan was null and void and without international
legal effect, and demanded that Israel, the occupying Power, should
rescind forthwith its decision;
2. Also calls upon Israel to desist from changing the physical
character, demographic composition, institutional structure and legal
status of the occupied Syrian Golan and in particular to desist from the
establishment of settlements;
3. Determines that all legislative and administrative measures and
actions taken or to be taken by Israel, the occupying Power, that purport
to alter the character and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan are
null and void, constitute a flagrant violation of international law and
of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons
in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 3/ and have no legal effect;
4. Calls upon Israel to desist from imposing Israeli citizenship and
Israeli identity cards on the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian
Golan, and to desist from its repressive measures against the population
of the occupied Syrian Golan;
5. Deplores the violations by Israel of the Geneva Convention relative
to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949;
6. Calls once again upon Member States not to recognize any of the
legislative or administrative measures and actions referred to above;
7. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly
at its fifty-third session on the implementation of the present
resolution.
69th plenary meeting
10 December 1997
Notes
1/ See A/52/131 and Add.1 and 2.
2/ A/52/550.
3/ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
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