A/RES/73/94
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 54
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 December 2018
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/73/523)]
73/94.
Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, 212 (III) of 19 November
1948, 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 and all subsequent related resolutions, including
its resolution 72/82 of 7 December 2017,
Recalling also the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,
Having considered the report of the Commissioner-General of the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East covering
the period from 1 January to 31 December 2017, 1
Taking note of the letter dated 19 June 2018 from the Chair of the Advisory
Commission of the Agency addressed to the Commissioner-General, 2 and noting the
extraordinary meeting of the Commission held on 21 January and 16 August 2018,
Underlining that, at a time of heightened conflict and instability in the Middle
East, the Agency continues to play a vital role in ameliorating the plight of the
Palestine refugees through the provision of, inter alia, essential education, health,
relief and social services programmes and emergency assistance to a registered
population of more than 5.4 million refugees whose situation has become extremely
precarious, in mitigating the consequences of alarming trends, including increasing
violence, marginalization and poverty, in the areas of operation, and in providing a
crucial measure of stability in the region,
Deeply concerned about the extremely critical financial situation of the Agency,
caused by the structural underfunding of the Agency, as well as by rising needs and
expenditures resulting from the deterioration of the socioeconomic and humanitarian
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/73/13).
Ibid., pp. 6–7.
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