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Liberation Organization in Washington, D.C., on 13 September 1993,2 as well as the subsequent
implementation agreements, in particular the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip, signed in Washington, D.C., on 28 September 1995,3
Reaffirming that the United Nations has a permanent responsibility with respect to the question of
Palestine until the question is resolved in all its aspects in a satisfactory manner in accordance with
international legitimacy,
1. Expresses its appreciation to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the
Palestinian People for its efforts in performing the tasks assigned to it by the General Assembly;
2. Considers that the Committee can continue to make a valuable and positive contribution to
international efforts to promote the effective implementation of the Declaration of Principles on Interim
Self-Government Arrangements2 and to mobilize international support for and assistance to the Palestinian
people during the transitional period;
3. Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee contained in chapter VII of
its report;1
4. Requests the Committee to continue to keep under review the situation relating to the question
of Palestine and to report and make suggestions to the General Assembly or the Security Council, as
appropriate;
5. Authorizes the Committee to continue to exert all efforts to promote the exercise of the
inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, to make such adjustments in its approved programme of work
as it may consider appropriate and necessary in the light of developments, to give special emphasis to the
need to mobilize support and assistance for the Palestinian people and to report thereon to the General
Assembly at its fifty-fourth session and thereafter;
6. Requests the Committee to continue to extend its cooperation and support to Palestinian and
other non-governmental organizations in order to mobilize international solidarity and support for the
achievement by the Palestinian people of its inalienable rights and for a peaceful settlement of the question
of Palestine, and to involve additional non-governmental organizations in its work;
7. Requests the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, established under General
Assembly resolution 194 (III), and other United Nations bodies associated with the question of Palestine
to continue to cooperate fully with the Committee and to make available to it, at its request, the relevant
information and documentation which they have at their disposal;
8. Requests the Secretary-General to circulate the report of the Committee to all the competent
bodies of the United Nations, and urges them to take the necessary action, as appropriate;
2
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.
3
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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