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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/250
13 July 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 36
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/52/L.53/Rev.2 and Add.1)]
52/250. Participation of Palestine in the work of the United Nations
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947, in which, inter alia, it recommended the
partition of Palestine into a Jewish State and an Arab State, with Jerusalem as a corpus separatum,
Recalling also its resolution 3237 (XXIX) of 22 November 1974, by which it granted observer status
to the Palestine Liberation Organization,
Recalling further its resolution 43/160 A of 9 December 1988, adopted under the item entitled
"Observer status of national liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity and/or
by the League of Arab States", in which it decided that the Palestine Liberation Organization was entitled
to have its communications issued and circulated as official documents of the United Nations,
Recalling its resolution 43/177 of 15 December 1988, in which it acknowledged the proclamation of
the State of Palestine by the Palestine National Council on 15 November 1988 and decided that the
designation "Palestine" should be used in place of the designation "Palestine Liberation Organization" in
the United Nations system,
Recalling also its resolutions 49/12 A of 9 November 1994 and 49/12 B of 24 May 1995, through
which, inter alia, arrangements for the special commemorative meeting of the General Assembly on the
occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, in addition to applying to all Member and
observer States, were also applied to Palestine, in its capacity as observer, including in the organizing
process of the list of speakers for the commemorative meeting,
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