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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/41
20 January 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 39
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.50 and Add.1)]
53/41.
Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the
Department of Public Information of the Secretariat
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the
Palestinian People,1
Taking note in particular of the information contained in chapter VI of that report,
Recalling its resolution 52/51 of 9 December 1997,
Convinced that the worldwide dissemination of accurate and comprehensive information and the role
of non-governmental organizations and institutions remain of vital importance in heightening awareness
of and support for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people,
Aware of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements signed by the
Government of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington, D.C., on
13 September 1993,2 and of the subsequent implementation agreements, in particular the Israeli-Palestinian
1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 35 (A/53/35).
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.
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