A/RES/58/93
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 December 2003
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 83
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 2003
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/58/472)]
58/93. Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, 212 (III) of
19 November 1948, 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 and all subsequent related
resolutions, including resolution 57/121 of 11 December 2002,
Recalling also the relevant Security Council resolutions,
Having considered 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 July 2002 to 30 June 2003, 1
Taking note of the letter dated 25 September 2003 from the Chairperson of the
Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East addressed to the Commissioner-General, 2
Deeply concerned about the continuing critical financial situation of the
Agency and its effect on the continuing provision of necessary Agency services to
the Palestine refugees, including its emergency-related programmes and its
development programmes,
Recalling Articles 100, 104 and 105 of the Charter of the United Nations and
the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, 3
Affirming the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection
of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 4 to the Palestinian territory
occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem,
Aware of the continuing needs of Palestine refugees throughout the Occupied
Palestinian Territory and in the other fields of operation, namely, in Jordan, Lebanon
and the Syrian Arab Republic,
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1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 13 and corrigendum and
addendum (A/58/13 and Corr.1 and Add.1).
2
Ibid., Supplement No. 13 and corrigendum (A/58/13 and Corr.1), p. viii.
3
Resolution 22 A (I).
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
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