Permanent sovereignty over natural resources in the OPT and Golan – GA Second Cttee/Introduction of draft resolution – Summary record (excerpts)

Second Committee 

Summary record of the 28th meeting 

Held at Headquarters, New York, on Friday, 12 November 2010, at 10 a.m. 

 Chairperson:  Ms. Ochir  …………………………………….  (Mongolia) 

Contents 

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Agenda item 60: Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources (continued) (A/C.2/65/L.31) 

Draft resolution on permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources (A/C.2/65/L.31) 

42.  Mr. Khalil (Egypt) introduced draft resolution A/C.2/65/L.31 on behalf of the original sponsors and Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Ecuador, Namibia and Pakistan. The draft resolution reflected the Secretary-General’s report (A/65/72-E/2010/13), which demonstrated that the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, continued to deepen the economic and social hardships of the Palestinian people. The draft resolution was similar to General Assembly resolution 64/185. However, technical updates had been included in the first, twelfth and fifteenth preambular paragraphs and some amendments had been inserted in the sixteenth preambular paragraph and in paragraphs 2, 4 and 8.

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