United Nations
A/RES/60/102
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 January 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 30
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/60/476)]
60/102. 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 its resolution 59/119 of 10 December 2004,
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 2004 to 30 June 2005, 1
Taking note of the letter dated 26 September 2005 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 critical financial situation of the Agency and its
effect on the provision of necessary Agency services to the Palestine refugees,
including its emergency-related and 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
Recalling also the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated
Personnel, 4
Affirming the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection
of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 5 to the Palestinian territory
occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem,
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1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/60/13); and ibid.,
Supplement No. 13A (A/60/13/Add.1).
2
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/60/13), p. vii.
3
Resolution 22 A (I).
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2051, No. 35457.
5
Ibid., vol. 75, No. 973.
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