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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/190
21 February 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 12
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/51/601)]
51/190.
Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian
people in the occupied Palestinian
territory, including Jerusalem, and of the
Arab population in the occupied Syrian
Golan over their natural resources
The General Assembly,
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/40 of 26 July
1996,
Reaffirming the principle of the permanent sovereignty of people 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
Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November
1967, 465 (1980) of 1 March 1980 and 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
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 Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and other Arab
territories occupied by Israel since 1967,
Expressing concern at the exploitation by Israel, the occupying Power,
of the natural resources of the occupied Palestinian territory, including
Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967,
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