Resolution 60/36
(December 1, 2005)
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 and all subsequent relevant resolutions, including
those adopted by the General Assembly at its emergency
special sessions and resolution 59/28 of 1 December
2004,
Recalling also its resolution
58/292 of 6 May 2004,
Having considered the report
of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable
Rights of the Palestinian People,1
Recalling the mutual recognition
between the Government of the State of Israel and the
Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative
of the Palestinian people, as well as the existing agreements
between the two sides and the need for full compliance
with those agreements,
Recalling also the Quartet
road map to a permanent two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict,2
Recalling further the advisory
opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International
Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Construction
of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,3 and recalling also its resolution ES-10/15 of 20 July
2004,
Reaffirming that the United
Nations has a permanent responsibility towards the question
of Palestine until the question is resolved in all its
aspects in a satisfactory manner in accordance with
international legitimacy,
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,
and takes note of its annual report, 1 including the
conclusions and recommendations contained in chapter
VII thereof;
2. Requests the Committee
to continue to exert all efforts to promote the realization
of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people,
to support the Middle East peace process and to mobilize
international support for and assistance to the Palestinian
people, and authorizes the Committee to make such adjustments
in its approved programme of work as it may consider
appropriate and necessary in the light of developments
and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its
sixty-first session and thereafter;
3. Also requests the Committee
to continue to keep under review the situation relating
to the question of Palestine and to report and make
suggestions to the General Assembly, the Security Council
or the Secretary-General, as appropriate;
4. Further requests the Committee
to continue to extend its cooperation and support to
Palestinian and other civil society organizations in
order to mobilize international solidarity and support
for the achievement by the Palestinian people of its
inalienable rights and for a peaceful settlement of
the question of Palestine, and to involve additional
civil society organizations in its work;
5. Requests the United Nations
Conciliation Commission for Palestine, established under
General Assembly resolution 194 (III), and 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;
6. Invites all Governments
and organizations to extend their cooperation to the
Committee in the performance of its tasks;
7. Requests the Secretary-General
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;
8. Also requests the Secretary-General
to continue to provide the Committee with all the necessary
facilities for the performance of its tasks.
60th plenary meeting
1 December 2005
Notes
1Official Records
of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session,
Supplement No. 35 (A/60/35).
2S/2003/529, annex.
3See A/ES-10/273 and Corr.1.
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