United Nations
A/RES/61/184
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 January 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 40
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2006
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/61/418)]
61/184. Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan
over their natural resources
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 60/183 of 22 December 2005, and taking note of
Economic and Social Council resolution 2006/43 of 27 July 2006,
Recalling also its resolutions 59/251 of 22 December 2004 and 58/292 of
6 May 2004,
Reaffirming the principle of the permanent sovereignty of peoples 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 relevant
Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November
1967, 465 (1980) of 1 March 1980 and 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
Recalling its resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970,
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 East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied
by Israel since 1967,
Recalling, in this regard, the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights 2 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,2
and affirming that these human rights instruments must be respected in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, as well as in the occupied
Syrian Golan,
Recalling also the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the
International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.