A/RES/71/20
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 December 2016
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 35
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 30 November 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.18 and Add.1)]
71/20. Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights
of the Palestinian People
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 181 (II) of 29 November 1947, 194 (III) of
11 December 1948, 3236 (XXIX) of 22 November 1974, 3375 (XXX) and
3376 (XXX) of 10 November 1975, 31/20 of 24 November 1976 and all its
subsequent relevant resolutions, including those adopted at its emergency special
sessions and its resolution 70/12 of 24 November 2015,
Recalling also its resolution 58/292 of 6 May 2004,
Having considered the report of the Committee on the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, 1
Recalling the mutual recognition between the Government of the State of
Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the
Palestinian people, as well as the existing agreements between the two sides and the
need for full compliance with those agreements,
Affirming its support for a comprehensive, just, lasting and peaceful settlement
to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the basis of the relevant United Nations
resolutions, the terms of reference of the Madrid Conference, including the pr inciple
of land for peace, the Arab Peace Initiative adopted by the Council of the League of
Arab States at its fourteenth session 2 and the Quartet road map to a permanent
two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, endorsed by the Security
Council in resolution 1515 (2003) of 19 November 2003, 3
Recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International
Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the construction of a wall i n the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, 4 and recalling also its resolutions ES-10/15 of
20 July 2004 and ES-10/17 of 15 December 2006,
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1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 35 (A/71/35).
A/56/1026-S/2002/932, annex II, resolution 14/221.
3
S/2003/529, annex.
4
See A/ES-10/273 and Corr.1.
2
16-20708 (E)
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