United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/56/57
Distr.: General
14 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 87
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/56/549)]
56/57.
Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, 36/146 C of
16 December 1981 and all its subsequent resolutions on the question,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted in pursuance of
resolution 55/128 of 8 December 2000, 1
Taking note also of the report of the United Nations Conciliation Commission
for Palestine for the period from 1 September 2000 to 31 August 2001, 2
Recalling that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 3 and the principles
of international law uphold the principle that no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of
his or her property,
Recalling in particular its resolution 394 (V) of 14 December 1950, in which
it directed the Conciliation Commission, in consultation with the parties concerned,
to prescribe measures for the protection of the rights, property and interests of the
Palestine Arab refugees,
Noting the completion of the programme of identification and evaluation of Arab
property, as announced by the Conciliation Commission in its twenty-second progress
report,4 and the fact that the Land Office had a schedule of Arab owners and file of
documents defining the location, area and other particulars of Arab property,
Recalling that, in the framework of the Middle East peace process, the
Palestine Liberation Organization and the Government of Israel agreed, in the
Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements of
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1
A/56/420.
A/56/290, annex.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
4
Official Records of the General Assembly, Nineteenth Session, Annexes, Annex No. 11, document
A/5700.
2
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