United Nations
A/RES/59/251
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 March 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 91
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2004
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/59/489)]
59/251. Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan
over their natural resources
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 58/229 of 23 December 2003, and taking note of
Economic and Social Council resolution 2004/54 of 23 July 2004,
Recalling also its resolution 58/292 of 6 May 2004,
Reaffirming the principle of the permanent sovereignty of peoples under
foreign occupation over their natural resources,
Guided by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, affirming the
inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force, and recalling relevant
Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November
1967, 465 (1980) of 1 March 1980 and 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
Recalling its resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970,
Reaffirming the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the
Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 1 to the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied
by Israel since 1967,
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 resolution ES-10/15 of
20 July 2004,
Expressing its concern at the exploitation by Israel, the occupying Power, of
the natural resources of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967,
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
A/ES-10/273 and Corr.1.