A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/82 26 February 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 109 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/618)] 51/82. The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination The General Assembly, Aware that the development of friendly relations among nations, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, is among the purposes and principles of the United Nations, as defined in its Charter, Recalling the International Covenants on Human Rights,1 Declaration of Human Rights,2 the Declaration on the Granting to Colonial Countries and Peoples3 and the Vienna Declaration Action, adopted at the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 the Universal of Independence and Programme of June 1993,4 Recalling also the Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations,5 Noting the developments in the Middle East peace process, including the mutual recognition and the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim 1 Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 2 Resolution 217 A (III). 3 Resolution 1514 (XV). 4 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. 5 Resolution 50/6. 97-76945 /...