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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/89
29 January 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 20 (d)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.54/Rev.1)]
53/89. Assistance to the Palestinian people
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 52/170 of 16 December 1997,
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
Gravely concerned about the difficult economic and employment conditions facing the Palestinian
people throughout the occupied territory,
Conscious of the urgent need for improvement in the economic and social infrastructure of the
occupied territory and the living conditions of the Palestinian people,
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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