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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/68
20 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 87
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/52/617)]
52/68.
The occupied Syrian Golan
The General Assembly,
Having considered the reports of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the
Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories,1
Deeply concerned that the Syrian Golan occupied since 1967 has been under continued Israeli military
occupation,
Recalling Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
Recalling also its previous relevant resolutions, the last of which was resolution 51/135 of
13 December 1996,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General submitted in pursuance of resolution 51/135,2
Recalling its previous relevant resolutions in which, inter alia, it called upon Israel to put an end to its
occupation of the Arab territories,
Reaffirming once more the illegality of the decision of 14 December 1981 taken by Israel to impose its
laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan, which has resulted in the effective
annexation of that territory,
1
See A/52/131 and Add.1 and 2.
2
A/52/550.
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