A/RES/76/225
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 64
Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan
over their natural resources
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2021
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/76/540, para. 15)]
76/225.
Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and
of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their
natural resources
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 75/236 of 21 December 2020, and taking note of
Economic and Social Council resolution 2021/4 of 14 September 2020,
Recalling also its resolutions 58/292 of 6 May 2004 and 59/251 of 22 December
2004,
Reaffirming the principle of the permanent sovereignty of peoples under foreign
occupation over their natural resources,
Guided by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, affirming the
inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force, and recalling relevant Sec urity
Council resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, 465
(1980) of 1 March 1980, 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981 and 2334 (2016) of
23 December 2016,
Recalling its resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970,
Bearing in mind its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”,
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
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