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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/38
15 January 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 40
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.53 and Corr.1 and Add.1)]
53/38. The situation in the Middle East: the Syrian Golan
The General Assembly,
Having considered the item entitled “The situation in the Middle East”,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General,1
Recalling Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
Reaffirming the fundamental principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force,
in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming once more the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of
Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,2 to the occupied Syrian Golan,
Deeply concerned that Israel has not withdrawn from the Syrian Golan, which has been under
occupation since 1967, contrary to the relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions,
Stressing the illegality of the Israeli settlement construction and activities in the occupied Syrian
Golan since 1967,
1
A/53/550.
2
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
99-76153
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