A/RES/72/85
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 December 2017
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 54
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 December 2017
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/72/448)]
72/85.
Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection
of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,
and the other occupied Arab territories
The General Assembly,
Recalling its
6 December 2016,
relevant
resolutions,
including
resolution
71/96
of
Bearing in mind the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,
Recalling the Regulations annexed to the Hague Convention IV of 1907, the
Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of
12 August 1949, 1 and relevant provisions of customary law, including those codified
in Additional Protocol I 2 to the four Geneva Conventions, 3
Having considered the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli
Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of
the Occupied Territories 4 and the relevant reports of the Secretary-General, 5
Considering that the promotion of respect for the obligations arising from the
Charter of the United Nations and other instruments and rules of international law is
among the basic purposes and principles of the United Nations,
Recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International
Court of Justice, 6 and also recalling General Assembly resolution ES-10/15 of
20 July 2004,
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, No. 17512.
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
A/72/539.
A/72/296, A/72/314, A/72/538, A/72/564 and A/72/565.
See A/ES-10/273 and A/ES-10/273/Corr.1.
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