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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/116
9 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 20 (e)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/54/L.52 and Add.1)]
54/116.
Assistance to the Palestinian people
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 53/89 of 7 December 1998,
Recalling also previous resolutions on the question,
Welcoming the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements of
1993 between the Government of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the
representative of the Palestinian people, 1 as well as the signing of the subsequent implementation agreements,
including the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip of 1995,2 and the recent signing of the
Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum on 4 September 1999,
Gravely concerned about the difficult economic and employment conditions facing the Palestinian
people throughout the occupied territory,
1
A/48/486–S/26560, annex; see Official Records of the Security Council, Forty-eighth Year, Supplement
for October, November and December 1993, document S/26560.
2
A/51/889–S/1997/357, annex; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fifty-second Year,
Supplement for April, May and June 1997, document S/1997/357.
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