United Nations
A/RES/67/86
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 March 2013
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 70 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 13 December 2012
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/67/L.38 and Add.1)]
67/86.
Assistance to the Palestinian people
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 66/118 of 15 December 2011, as well as its previous
resolutions on the question,
Recalling also the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim SelfGovernment Arrangements in Washington, D.C., on 13 September 1993, by the
Government of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the
representative of the Palestinian people, 1 and the subsequent implementation
agreements concluded by the two sides,
Recalling further all relevant international law, including humanitarian and
human rights law, and, in particular, the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights,2 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 3 and the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4
Gravely concerned at the difficult living conditions and humanitarian situation
affecting the Palestinian people, in particular women and children, throughout the
occupied Palestinian territory,
Conscious of the urgent need for improvement in the economic and social
infrastructure of the occupied territory,
Welcoming, in this context, the development of projects, notably on
infrastructure, to revive the Palestinian economy and improve the living conditions
of the Palestinian people, stressing the need to create the appropriate conditions to
facilitate the implementation of these projects, and noting the contribution of
partners in the region and of the international community,
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1
A/48/486-S/26560, annex.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
4
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
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