General Assembly

Distr. GENERAL  

19 December 1991

ORIGINAL:
ENGLISH

 
                                                    A/RES/46/162
                                                    78th plenary meeting
                                                    19 December 1991
 
 
        Living conditions of the Palestinian people in the
               occupied Palestinian territory
 
  The General Assembly,
 
  Recalling the Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements, 1976, and the
relevant recommendations for national action adopted by Habitat: United
Nations Conference on Human Settlements,
 
  Recalling also its resolution 44/174 of 19 December 1989,
 
  Taking into account the intifadah of the Palestinian people against the
Israeli occupation, including Israeli economic and social policies and
practices,
 
  Gravely alarmed by the continuation of the Israeli settlement policies in
the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem,
which have been declared illegal and a major obstacle to peace,
 
  1.  Takes note of the report annexed to the note by the Secretary-General;
 
  2.  Calls for the immediate cessation of the Israeli practices against the
Palestinian people, particularly in the economic and social fields;
 
  3.  Expresses its alarm at the deterioration, as a result of the Israeli
occupation, in the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the
Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, occupied since 1967;
 
  4.  Affirms that the Israeli occupation is contradictory to the basic
requirements for the social and economic development of the Palestinian people
in the occupied Palestinian territory;
 
  5.  Rejects the Israeli plans and actions intended to change the demographic
composition of the occupied Palestinian territory, in particular the increase
and expansion of the Israeli settlements;
 
  6.  Requests the Secretary-General to consider ways and means of improving
the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian
territory and, pending the exercise of their right to self-determination, to
plan for concerted economic and social actions by the United Nations system;
 
  7.  Also requests the Secretary-General to report to General Assembly at its
forty-eighth session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the progress
made in the implementation of the present resolution.