General Assembly

Distr. GENERAL  

20 December 1991

ORIGINAL:
ENGLISH

 
                                                 A/RES/46/199
                                                 79th plenary meeting
                                                 20 December 1991
 
 
     Adverse economic effects of Israeli settlements in the occupied
        Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and other Arab
                     territories occupied since 1967
 
  The General Assembly,
 
  Guided by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and affirming
the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force and Security
Council resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967 and 497 (1981) of 17
December 1981,
 
  Recalling Security Council resolution 465 (1980) of 1 March 1980, General
Assembly resolution 45/74 of 11 December 1990 and other resolutions affirming
the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of
Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949 to the occupied Palestinian
territory, including Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel
since 1967,
 
  Expressing its concern at the ongoing establishment by Israel, the occupying
Power, of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory and other Arab
territories occupied since 1967, and the settlement of new immigrants therein,
 
  1.  Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;
 
  2.  Deplores the establishment of settlements by Israel in the Palestinian
territory, including Jerusalem, and the other Arab territories occupied since
1967, and regards those practices as unlawful and therefore without any legal
effect;
 
  3.  Recognizes that the continuing establishment of settlements and their
ongoing enlargement in the Palestinian territory and the other Arab
territories occupied by Israel since 1967 and the settlement of new immigrants
have adverse consequences for the economic and social development of the Arab
population of those territories;
 
  4.  Strongly deplores Israel's practices in the occupied Palestinian
territory and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, in particular its
extensive confiscation of land, its diversion of water resources, its
depletion of the natural and economic resources of the occupied territories
and its displacement and deportation of the population of those territories;
 
  5.  Reaffirms the inalienable right of the Palestinian people and the
population of the Syrian Golan to their natural and economic resources, and
regards any infringement thereof as being without any legal validity;
 
  6.  Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
forty-seventh session, through the Economic and Social Council, a report on
the economic and social consequences of the establishment of settlements by
Israel in the Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and the Syrian
Golan.