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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/67
20 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 87
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/52/617)]
52/67.
Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the
occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem
The General Assembly,
Recalling its relevant resolutions, including those adopted at its tenth emergency special session, and the
resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights,
Bearing in mind the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, the most recent of which are resolutions
904 (1994) of 18 March 1994 and 1073 (1996) of 28 September 1996,
Having considered the reports of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the
Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories1 and the reports of the
Secretary-General,2
Aware of the responsibility of the international community to promote human rights and ensure respect
for international law,
Reaffirming the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force,
Reaffirming also the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons
in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,3 to the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and other
Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967,
1
See A/52/131 and Add.1 and 2.
2
A/52/550-553.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
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