A/RES/67/262
United Nations
Distr.: General
4 June 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 33
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 15 May 2013
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/67/L.63 and Add.1)]
67/262. The situation in the Syrian Arab Republic
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 66/176 of 19 December 2011, 66/253 A of 16 February
2012, 66/253 B of 3 August 2012, and 67/183 of 20 December 2012 and Human Rights
Council resolutions S-16/1 of 29 April 2011, 1 S-17/1 of 23 August 2011,1 S-18/1 of
2 December 2011, 2 19/1 of 1 March 2012, 3 19/22 of 23 March 2012,3 S-19/1 of 1 June
2012, 4 20/22 of 6 July 2012, 5 21/26 of 28 September 2012 6 and 22/24 of 22 March
2013,
Recalling also Security Council resolutions 2042 (2012) of 14 April 2012 and
2043 (2012) of 21 April 2012,
Recalling further all resolutions of the League of Arab States relating to the
situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, in particular resolution 7595 of 6 March
2013, in which the League reviewed the very serious situation in the Syrian Arab
Republic due to the escalating violence and killings in most of the Syrian territory,
and the continuation of grave violations of human rights by the Syrian authorities
using heavy weapons, warplanes and Scud missiles to bomb neighbourhoods and
populated areas, which has seriously increased the number of victims, caused human
displacement inside the Syrian Arab Republic and an influx to the neighbouring
countries of thousands of Syrians fleeing violence, which targets children and
women who have been subjected to frightful massacres, threatening thus to lead to
the collapse of the Syrian State, and endangers the security, peace and stability of
the region,
Recalling Organization of Islamic Cooperation resolution 2/4-EX (IS) of
15 August 2012 on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, in which the
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. I.
Ibid., Supplement No. 53B and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.2 and Corr.1), chap. II.
3
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. III, sect. A.
4
Ibid., chap. V.
5
Ibid., chap. IV, sect. A.
6
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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