A/RES/76/78
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 54
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 9 December 2021
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/76/416, para. 13)]
76/78.
Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, 212 (III) of
19 November 1948, 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 and all subsequent related
resolutions, including its resolution 75/94 of 10 December 2020,
Recalling also the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,
Having considered the report of the Commissioner-General of the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East covering
the period from 1 January to 31 December 2020, 1
Taking note of the letter dated 1 July 2021 from the Chair of the Advisory
Commission of the Agency addressed to the Commissioner-General, 2
Underlining that, at a time of heightened conflict and instability in the Middle
East, the Agency continues to play a vital role in ameliorating the plight of the
Palestine refugees through the provision of, inter alia, essential education, health,
relief and social services programmes and emergency assistance to a registered
population of more than 5.7 million refugees whose situation is extremely precarious,
in mitigating the consequences of alarming trends in the Agency’s areas of operation,
including increasing violence, marginalization and poverty and the impact of the
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and in providing a crucial measure of
stability in the region,
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21-18626 (E)
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-sixth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/76/13).
Ibid., pp. 7–8.
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