A/RES/74/86
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 December 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 50
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 13 December 2019
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/74/409)]
74/86.
Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948 and 36/146 C of
16 December 1981 and all its subsequent resolutions on the question,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to its
resolution 73/95 of 7 December 2018, 1 as well as that of the United Nations
Conciliation Commission for Palestine for the period from 1 September 2018 to
31 August 2019, 2
Recalling that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 3 and the principles of
international law uphold the principle that no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his
or her property,
Recalling in particular its resolution 394 (V) of 14 December 1950, in which it
directed the Conciliation Commission, in consultation with the parties c oncerned, to
prescribe measures for the protection of the rights, property and interests of the
Palestine refugees,
Noting the completion of the programme of identification and evaluation of
Arab property, as announced by the Conciliation Commission in it s twenty-second
progress report, 4 and the fact that the Land Office had a schedule of Arab owners and
a file of documents defining the location, area and other particulars of Arab property,
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19-21898 (E)
A/74/307.
A/74/332.
Resolution 217 A (III).
Official Records of the General Assembly, Nineteenth Session, Annexes, Annex No. 11 , document
A/5700.
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