Resolution 58/100
(December 17, 2003)
The General Assembly,
Having considered the
report 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 57/128 of 11 December 2002,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General
submitted in pursuance of resolution 57/128, 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 all 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, 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, 3and
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 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-ninth session on the implementation
of the present resolution.
72nd plenary meeting
9 December 2003
Notes
1A/58/311.
2A/58/264.
3United
Nations, Treaty Series,
vol. 75, No. 973.
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