Assistance to the Palestinian people A/RES/74/117 of the Agency in providing humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip; 11. Calls upon the international community to provide urgently needed assistance and services in an effort to alleviate the difficult humanitarian situation being faced by Palestinian women, children and their families and to help in the reconstruction and development of relevant Palestinian institutions; 12. Stresses the role that all funding instruments, including the European Commission’s Palestinian-European Mechanism for the Management of Socioeconomic Aid and the World Bank trust fund, have been playing in directly assisting the Palestinian people; 13. 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; 14. Calls upon the international donor community to expedite the delivery of pledged assistance to the Palestinian people to meet their urgent needs; 15. Stresses, in this context, the importance of ensuring free humanitarian access to the Palestinian people and the free movement of persons and goods; 16. Also stresses the need for the full implementation by both parties of existing agreements, including the Agreement on Movement and Access and the Agreed Principles for the Rafah Crossing, of 15 November 2005, to allow for the freedom of movement of the Palestinian civilian population, as well as for imports and exports, within and into and out of the Gaza Strip; 17. Further stresses the need to ensure the safety and security of humanitarian personnel, premises, facilities, equipment, vehicles and supplies, as well as the need to ensure safe and unhindered access by humanitarian personnel and delivery of supplies and equipment, in order to allow such personnel to efficiently perform their task of assisting affected civilian populations; 18. Urges the international donor community, United Nations agencies and organizations and non-governmental organizations to extend to the Palestinian people, as rapidly as possible, emergency economic assistance and humanitarian assistance, particularly in the Gaza Strip, to counter the impact of the current crisis; 19. Stresses the need for the continued implementation of 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, 6 including with regard to the full, prompt and regular transfer of Palestinian indirect tax revenues; 20. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the implementation of the present resolution, containing: (a) people; An assessment of the assistance actually received by the Palestinian (b) An assessment of the needs still unmet and specific proposals for responding effectively to them; __________________ 6 19-22034 A/51/889-S/1997/357, annex. 5/6