A/RES/69/89
United Nations
Distr.: General
16 December 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 50
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2014
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/69/453)]
69/89.
Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948 and 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 pursuant to its
resolution 68/79 of 11 December 2013, 1 as well as that of the United Nations
Conciliation Commission for Palestine for the period from 1 September 2013 to
31 August 2014,2
Recalling that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights3 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 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 a file of documents defining the location, area and other particulars of Arab
property,
Expressing its appreciation for the preservation and modernization of the
existing records, including the land records, of the Conciliation Commission, and
stressing the importance of such records for a just resolution of the plight of the
Palestine refugees in conformity with resolution 194 (III),
Recalling that, in the framework of the Middle East peace process, the
Palestine Liberation Organization and the Government of Israel agreed, in the
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1
A/69/351.
A/69/349, annex.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
4
Official Records of the General Assembly, Nineteenth Session, Annexes, Annex No. 11, document A/5700.
2
14-66536 (E)
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