A/RES/63/97
United Nations
Distr.: General
18 December 2008
General Assembly
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 30
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2008
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/63/401)]
63/97. Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan
The General Assembly,
Guided by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and affirming
the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force,
Recalling its relevant resolutions, including resolution 62/108 of 17 December
2007, as well as those resolutions adopted at its tenth emergency special session,
Recalling also relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolutions
242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, 446 (1979) of 22 March 1979, 465 (1980) of
1 March 1980, 476 (1980) of 30 June 1980, 478 (1980) of 20 August 1980,
497 (1981) of 17 December 1981 and 904 (1994) of 18 March 1994,
Reaffirming the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the
Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 1 to the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to the occupied Syrian Golan,
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Considering that the transfer by the occupying Power of parts of its own
civilian population into the territory it occupies constitutes a breach of the Fourth
Geneva Convention1 and relevant provisions of customary law, including those
codified in Additional Protocol I 2 to the four Geneva Conventions, 3
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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 in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, 4 and recalling also General Assembly resolutions
ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004 and ES-10/17 of 15 December 2006,
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, No. 17512.
3
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
4
See A/ES-10/273 and Corr.1; see also Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 2004, p. 136.
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