A/RES/71/92
United Nations
Distr.: General
22 December 2016
General Assembly
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 49
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2016
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/71/493)]
71/92.
Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967
and subsequent hostilities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 2252 (ES-V) of 4 July 1967, 2341 B (XXII) of
19 December 1967 and all subsequent related resolutions,
Recalling also Security Council resolutions 237 (1967) of 14 June 1967 and
259 (1968) of 27 September 1968,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted in pursuance of
its resolution 70/84 of 9 December 2015, 1
Taking note also of the report of the Commissioner-General of the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East covering
the period from 1 January to 31 December 2015, 2
Concerned about the continuing human suffering resulting from the June 1967
and subsequent hostilities,
Taking note of the relevant provisions of the Declaration of Principles on
Interim Self-Government Arrangements of 13 September 1993 3 with regard to the
modalities for the admission of persons displaced in 1967, and concerned that the
process agreed upon has not yet been effected,
Taking note also of its resolution 67/19 of 29 November 2012,
1.
Reaffirms the right of all persons displaced as a result of the June 1967
and subsequent hostilities to return to their homes or former places of residence in
the territories occupied by Israel since 1967;
2.
Stresses the necessity for an accelerated return of displaced persons, and
calls for compliance with the mechanism agreed upon by the parties in article XII of
the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements of
13 September 1993 3 on the return of displaced persons;
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1
A/71/340.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/71/13).
3
A/48/486-S/26560, annex.
2
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