A/RES/56/32
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 December 2001
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 42
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.24 and Add.1)]
56/32. The Syrian Golan
The General Assembly,
Having considered the item entitled “The situation in the Middle East”,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 1
Recalling Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December 1981,
Reaffirming the fundamental principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition
of territory by force, in accordance with international law and the Charter of the
United Nations,
Reaffirming once more the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to
the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 2 to the
occupied Syrian Golan,
Deeply concerned that Israel has not withdrawn from the Syrian Golan, which
has been under occupation since 1967, contrary to the relevant Security Council and
General Assembly resolutions,
Stressing the illegality of the Israeli settlement construction and activities in
the occupied Syrian Golan since 1967,
Noting with satisfaction the convening in Madrid on 30 October 1991 of the
Peace Conference on the Middle East, on the basis of Security Council resolutions
242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973 and 425 (1978) of
19 March 1978 and the formula of land for peace,
Expressing grave concern over the halt in the peace process on the Syrian
track, and expressing the hope that peace talks will soon resume from the point they
had reached,
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Declares that Israel has failed so far to comply with Security Council
resolution 497 (1981);
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