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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/52
28 January 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 36
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/52/L.52 and Corr.1 and Add.1)]
52/52.
Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine
The General Assembly,
Recalling its relevant resolutions, including resolutions adopted at the tenth emergency special session,
Recalling also the relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967) of
22 November 1967 and 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973,
Aware that 1997 marks fifty years since the adoption of resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 and
thirty years since the occupation of Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General1 submitted pursuant to the request made in its
resolution 51/26 of 4 December 1996,
Convinced that achieving a final and peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine, the core of the
Arab-Israeli conflict, is imperative for the attainment of a comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle
East,
Aware that the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples is among the purposes and
principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Affirming the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war,
Affirming also the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the territory occupied since 1967 and of Israeli
actions aimed at changing the status of Jerusalem,
1
A/52/581-S/1997/866. For the final text, see Official Records of the Security Council, Fifty-second Year,
Supplement for October, November and December 1997, document S/1997/866.
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