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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/54
28 January 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 37
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/52/L.55 and Add.1)]
52/54.
The situation in the Middle East: the Syrian Golan
The General Assembly,
Having considered the item entitled "The situation in the Middle East",
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General,1
Recalling Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
Reaffirming the fundamental principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force, in
accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming once more the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian
Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,2 to the occupied Syrian Golan,
Deeply concerned that Israel has not withdrawn from the Syrian Golan, which has been under occupation
since 1967, contrary to the relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions,
Stressing the illegality of the Israeli settlement construction and activities in the occupied Syrian Golan
since 1967,
Noting with satisfaction the convening at Madrid on 30 October 1991 of the Peace Conference on the
Middle East, on the basis of Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, 338 (1973) of
22 October 1973 and 425 (1978) of 19 March 1978 and the formula of land for peace,
1
A/52/467.
2
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
98-76099
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