A/RES/65/16
United Nations
Distr.: General
25 January 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 37
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 30 November 2010
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/65/L.17 and Add.1)]
65/16. Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine
The General Assembly,
Recalling its relevant resolutions, including those adopted at its tenth
emergency special session,
Recalling also its resolution 58/292 of 6 May 2004,
Recalling further relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolutions
242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973, 1397 (2002) of
12 March 2002, 1515 (2003) of 19 November 2003, 1544 (2004) of 19 May 2004
and 1850 (2008) of 16 December 2008,
Recalling the affirmation by the Security Council of the vision of a region
where two States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side within secure and
recognized borders,
Noting with concern that it has been more than sixty years since the adoption
of its resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 and forty-three years since the
occupation of Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, in 1967,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
the request made in its resolution 64/19 of 2 December 2009, 1
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Reaffirming the permanent responsibility of the United Nations with regard to
the question of Palestine until the question is resolved in all its aspects in
accordance with international law and relevant resolutions,
Recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International
Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, 2 and recalling also its resolutions ES-10/15 of
20 July 2004 and ES-10/17 of 15 December 2006,
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A/65/380-S/2010/484 and Add.1.
See A/ES-10/273 and Corr.1; see also Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 2004, p. 136.
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