A
UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/150
4 February 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 21 (d)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/51/L.41)]
51/150.
Assistance to the Palestinian people
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 50/58 H of 20 December 1995,
Recalling also previous resolutions on the question,
Welcoming the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim SelfGovernment 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,
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,
Aware that development is difficult under occupation and best promoted
in circumstances of peace and stability,
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.
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