United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/128
Distr.: General
27 February 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 84
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/55/570)]
55/128. 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 54/74 of 6 December 1999, 1
Taking note also of the report of the United Nations Conciliation Commission
for Palestine for the period from 1 September 1999 to 31 August 2000, 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 Arab 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,
Recalling that, in the framework of the Middle East peace process, the
Palestine Liberation Organization and the Government of Israel agreed, in the
Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements of
13 September 1993, 5 to commence negotiations on permanent status issues,
including the important issue of the refugees,
1
A/55/428.
A/55/329, annex.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
4
Official Records of the General Assembly, Nineteenth Session, Annexes, Annex No.11, document A/5700.
5
A/48/486-S/26560, annex.
2
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