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Taking note of the completion of the programme of identification and evaluation of Arab property, as
announced by the Conciliation Commission in its twenty-second progress report,4 and of the fact that the
Land Office had a schedule of Arab owners and file of documents defining the location, area and other
particulars of Arab property,
Recalling that in the framework of the Middle East peace process the Palestine Liberation Organization
and the Government of Israel agreed, in the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government
Arrangements of 13 September 1993,5 to commence negotiations on permanent status issues, including the
important issue of the refugees, and calling for the commencement of those negotiations,
1. Reaffirms that the Palestine Arab refugees are entitled to their property and to the income derived
therefrom, in conformity with the principles of justice and equity;
2. Requests the Secretary-General to take all appropriate steps, in consultation with the United Nations
Conciliation Commission for Palestine, for the protection of Arab property, assets and property rights in Israel
and to preserve and modernize the existing records;
3. Calls once more upon Israel to render all facilities and assistance to the Secretary-General in the
implementation of the present resolution;
4. Calls upon all the parties concerned to provide the Secretary-General with any pertinent information
in their possession concerning Arab property, assets and property rights in Israel that would assist him in the
implementation of the present resolution;
5. Urges the Palestinian and Israeli sides, as agreed between them, to deal with the important issue
of Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues in the framework of the final status negotiations of the
Middle East peace process;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session on the
implementation of the present resolution.
69th plenary meeting
10 December 1997
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Nineteenth Session, Annexes, Annex No. 11, document A/5700.
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.