United Nations
A/RES/60/101
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 January 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 30
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/60/476)]
60/101. Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and
subsequent hostilities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 2252 (ES-V) of 4 July 1967, 2341 B (XXII) of
19 December 1967 and all subsequent related resolutions,
Recalling also Security Council resolutions 237 (1967) of 14 June 1967 and
259 (1968) of 27 September 1968,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted in pursuance of
its resolution 59/118 of 10 December 2004, 1
Taking note also of 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 July 2004 to 30 June 2005, 2
Concerned about the continuing human suffering resulting from the June 1967
and subsequent hostilities,
Taking note of the relevant provisions of the Declaration of Principles on
Interim Self-Government Arrangements of 1993 3 with regard to the modalities for
the admission of persons displaced in 1967, and concerned that the process agreed
upon has not yet been effected,
Reaffirms the right of all persons displaced as a result of the June 1967
1.
and subsequent hostilities to return to their homes or former places of residence in
the territories occupied by Israel since 1967;
Expresses deep concern that the mechanism agreed upon by the parties in
2.
article XII of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government
Arrangements of 19933 on the return of displaced persons has not been complied
with, and stresses the necessity for an accelerated return of displaced persons;
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1
A/60/212.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/60/13); and ibid.,
Supplement No. 13A (A/60/13/Add.1).
3
A/48/486-S/26560, annex.
2
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