A/RES/71/95
United Nations
Distr.: General
23 December 2016
General Assembly
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 50
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2016
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/71/494)]
71/95.
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 70/87 of 9 December 2015, and the relevant resolutions of
the Human Rights Council, including resolutions S -12/1 of 16 October 2009, 4
S-21/1 of 23 July 2014 5 and 29/25 of 3 July 2015, 6
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, 7 and recalling in this regard its resolution
ES-10/15 of 20 July 2004,
Recalling the statement of 15 July 1999 and the declarations adopted on
5 December 2001 and on 17 December 2014 8 by the Conference of High Contracting
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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
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53), chap. VI.
6
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. II.
7
See A/ES-10/273 and Corr.1.
8
A/69/711-S/2015/1, annex.
2
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