United Nations
A/RES/67/118
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 January 2013
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 53
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2012
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/67/424)]
67/118. Work of the Special Committee to Investigate
Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights
of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs
of the Occupied Territories
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Guided also by international humanitarian law, in particular the Geneva
Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August
1949, 1 as well as international standards of human rights, in particular the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights 2 and the International Covenants on Human Rights, 3
Recalling its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 2443 (XXIII) of
19 December 1968 and 66/76 of 9 December 2011, and the relevant resolutions of
the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, including
resolution S-12/1, adopted by the Council at its twelfth special session on
16 October 2009, 4
Recalling also the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,
Taking into account the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the
International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the construction of a
wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 5 and recalling in this regard its resolution
ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004,
Recalling its resolution 58/292 of 6 May 2004,
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/64/53/Add.1), chap. I.
5
See A/ES-10/273 and Corr.1.
2
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