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Also expresses its appreciation to the Member States, United Nations
bodies and intergovernmental, regional and non-governmental organizations that
have provided and continue to provide assistance to the Palestinian people;
Stresses the importance of the work of the United Nations Special
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Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the
Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian
Authority and of the steps taken under the auspices of the Secretary-General to
ensure the achievement of a coordinated mechanism for United Nations activities
throughout the occupied territories;
Urges Member States, international financial institutions of the United
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Nations system, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and
regional and interregional organizations to extend, as rapidly and as generously as
possible, economic and social assistance to the Palestinian people, in close
cooperation with the Palestine Liberation Organization and through official
Palestinian institutions;
Calls upon relevant organizations and agencies of the United Nations
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system to intensify their assistance in response to the urgent needs of the Palestinian
people in accordance with priorities set forth by the Palestinian side;
Calls upon the international community to provide urgently needed
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assistance and services in an effort to alleviate the dire humanitarian crisis being
faced by Palestinian children and their families and to help in the reconstruction of
relevant Palestinian institutions;
Welcomes the role that the temporary international mechanism plays in
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assisting directly the Palestinian people under the current circumstances, and
encourages interested donors to make use of the mechanism;
10. Urges Member States to open their markets to exports of Palestinian
products on the most favourable terms, consistent with appropriate trading rules,
and to implement fully existing trade and cooperation agreements;
11. Calls upon the international donor community to expedite the delivery of
pledged assistance to the Palestinian people to meet their urgent needs;
12. Stresses, in this context, the importance of ensuring the free passage of
aid to the Palestinian people and the free movement of persons and goods;
13. Also stresses the need for the full implementation by both parties of the
Agreement on Movement and Access and of the Agreed Principles for the Rafah
Crossing, of 15 November 2005, to allow for the freedom of movement of the
Palestinian civilian population within and into and out of the Gaza Strip;
14. Urges the international donor community, United Nations agencies and
organizations and non-governmental organizations to extend as rapidly as possible
emergency economic and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people to
counter the impact of the current crisis;
15. Stresses the need to implement the Paris Protocol on Economic Relations
of 29 April 1994, fifth annex to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip, signed in Washington, D.C., on 28 September 1995, 7
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