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3. Also expresses its appreciation to the Member States, United Nations bodies and
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations that have provided and continue to provide
assistance to the Palestinian people;
4. Stresses the importance of the work done by the United Nations Special Coordinator in the
Occupied Territories and of the steps taken under the auspices of the Secretary-General to ensure the
achievement of a coordinated mechanism for United Nations activities throughout the occupied territories;
5. Urges Member States, international financial institutions of the United Nations system,
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and regional and interregional organizations to
extend, as rapidly and as generously as possible, economic and social assistance to the Palestinian people
in close cooperation with the Palestine Liberation Organization and through official Palestinian institutions;
6. Calls upon relevant organizations and agencies of the United Nations system to intensify their
assistance in response to the urgent needs of the Palestinian people in accordance with the Palestinian
priorities set forth by the Palestinian Authority, with emphasis on national execution and capacity-building;
7. Urges Member States to open their markets to exports of Palestinian products on the most
favourable terms, consistent with appropriate trading rules;
8. Calls upon the international donor community to expedite the delivery of pledged assistance to
the Palestinian people to meet their urgent needs;
9. Suggests the convening in 1999 of a United Nations-sponsored seminar on the Palestinian
economy;
10. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth
session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the implementation of the present resolution,
containing:
(a) An assessment of the assistance actually received by the Palestinian people;
(b) An assessment of the needs still unmet and specific proposals for responding effectively to them;
11. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session, under the item entitled
“Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations,
including special economic assistance”, the sub-item entitled “Assistance to the Palestinian people”.
81st plenary meeting
7 December 1998