United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/125
Distr.: General
27 February 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 84
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/55/570)]
55/125. Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and
subsequent hostilities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 2252 (ES-V) of 4 July 1967, 2341 B (XXII) of
19 December 1967 and all subsequent related resolutions,
Recalling also Security Council resolutions 237 (1967) of 14 June 1967 and
259 (1968) of 27 September 1968,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted in pursuance of its
resolution 54/71 of 6 December 1999, 1
Taking note also of 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 July 1999 to 30 June 2000, 2
Concerned about the continuing human suffering resulting from the June 1967
and subsequent hostilities,
Taking note of the relevant provisions of the Declaration of Principles on
Interim Self-Government Arrangements, signed in Washington, D.C., on
13 September 1993 by the Government of the State of Israel and the Palestine
Liberation Organization, 3 with regard to the modalities for the admission of persons
displaced in 1967, and concerned that the process agreed upon has not yet been
effected,
1.
Reaffirms the right of all persons displaced as a result of the June 1967
and subsequent hostilities to return to their homes or former places of residence in
the territories occupied by Israel since 1967;
2.
Expresses concern that the mechanism agreed upon by the parties in
article XII of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government
1
A/55/391.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/55/13).
3
A/48/486-S/26560, annex.
2
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