United Nations General Assembly A/RES/59/119 Distr.: General 15 December 2004 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 75 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 2004 [on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (A/59/470)] 59/119. Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, 212 (III) of 19 November 1948, 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 and all subsequent related resolutions, including resolution 58/93 of 9 December 2003, Recalling also the relevant Security Council resolutions, Having considered the report of the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East covering the period from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2004, 1 Taking note of the letter dated 30 September 2004 from the Chairperson of the Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East addressed to the Commissioner-General, 2 Deeply concerned about the continuing critical financial situation of the Agency and its effect on the continuing provision of necessary Agency services to the Palestine refugees, including its emergency-related and development programmes, Recalling Articles 100, 104 and 105 of the Charter of the United Nations and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, 3 Recalling also the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel, 4 Affirming the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, 5 to the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, _______________ 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/59/13). Ibid., p. viii. 3 Resolution 22 A (I). 4 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2051, No. 35457. 5 Ibid., vol. 75, No. 973. 2 04-48340