A/RES/61/152
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 February 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 66
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2006
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/442)]
61/152. The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination
The General Assembly,
Aware that the development of friendly relations among nations, based on
respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, is among
the purposes and principles of the United Nations, as defined in the Charter,
Recalling, in this regard, its resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970
entitled “Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly
Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the
United Nations”,
Bearing in mind the International Covenants on Human Rights, 1 the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, 2 the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples 3 and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of
Action adopted at the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 4
Recalling the Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the
United Nations, 5
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 6
Recalling further 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, 7 and noting in particular the reply of the
Court, including on the right of peoples to self-determination, which is a right erga
omnes, 8
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1
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
Resolution 1514 (XV).
4
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
5
See resolution 50/6.
6
See resolution 55/2.
7
See A/ES-10/273 and Corr.1.
8
Ibid., advisory opinion, para. 88.
2
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