United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/57/122
Distr.: General
24 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 76
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/57/520)]
57/122. Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, 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 in pursuance of
its resolution 56/57 of 10 December 2001, 1
Taking note also of the report of the United Nations Conciliation Commission
for Palestine for the period from 1 September 2001 to 31 August 2002, 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 concerned,
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 its twenty-second
progress report, 4 and the fact that the Land Office had a schedule of Arab owners
and file of documents defining the location, area and other particulars of Arab
property,
Expressing its appreciation for the work done to preserve and modernize the
existing records, including the land records, of the Conciliation Commission and the
importance of such records for a just resolution of the plight of the Palestine
refugees in conformity with General Assembly resolution 194 (III),
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1
A/57/455.
A/57/294, annex.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
4
Official Records of the General Assembly, Nineteenth Session, Annexes, Annex No. 11, document
A/5700.
2
02 54593